>I have an old 386dx-40 laying around and was thinking about using it as a
>router for a limited home network (maybe 2 or 3 workstations). It would be
>used mainly as the gateway to my ISP for the other machines. My question
>is.. is such a small horsepower machine worth even considering for this
>purpose? It currently has 16 megs in it, but I could slap in more if needed..
>
>Opinions?
yeah, Its fine. I used the same configuration for about a year before I was
able to upgrade it to a pentium. I used it to route packets to the inet over
an isdn line. Worked great. I even played around a bit by turning the turbo
off and it still worked fine.... be prepared for 1+ hour kernel compile
times :)
laterz,
jim
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