| In MaD dUCK's email, 20-06-2001: | so i pulled this old 486-33 machine out of the basement, it's got 8Mb | RAM, a shitty graphics card, and 240Mb of HDD space. it's ISA only, | but i want to try using an AVM FritzCard and a cheap NE2000 compatible | to make it be a masquerading router. it's probably going to fail, but | i want to try anyway. | | question is: 2.2.x kernels or 2.4.x? i'd tend for the latter, but i | don't know is that's harsher on the hardware and needs more space, or | not...
I have a 486SX-25 with 8MB RAM, 320MB HD (only ~120-150 used right now, 32 swap just for plenty of room), NE2k ISA NIC and ISA modem (real, not lose^H^H^H^Hwin). It runs the routing just fine. It takes a while to boot up, and the shell (and vim) aren't the most responsive, but it does it job just fine. I have 2.2.19 kernel because its running stable. -D
