On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Brendon wrote: > I was wondering if i should even try to do something with this machine. > currently i have one desktop computer and one laptop, which i plan on putting > in a network so i can use internet (via a cablemodem) on both machines. > > should i even bother trying to put such a low end machine to use as a > gateway, firewall or webserver? if so would debian run on it, or should i > look for a single floppy solution (and if so which one, where do i look)? > > > Brendon Hi,
you will be surprised to see what an old machine is capable of. I have a 486DX2 with 12MB configured as a gateway (ip masquerade) for ADSL, firewall, smtp server, DNS server, pop3. So for internet sharing the computer is fast enough, I can even read my mail on it with acceptable speed. I do not know if it is fast enough for a webserver. Depends on your cable modem line. If your upstream (== downstream for a visitor) is 64kbit/s and you do not have too wild pages, I think the bandwidth of your internet connection will be the bottleneck. I do not know for higher speeds. Just try. The only thing that is really slow is the install, but after that... Greetz, Sebastiaan -- NT is the OS of the future. The main engine is the 16-bit Subsystem (also called MS-DOS Subsystem). Above that, there is the windoze 95/98 16-bit Subsystem. Anyone can see that 16+16=32, so windoze NT is a *real* 32-bit system.
