From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miguel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gonz=E1lez=20Casta=F1os?= Subject: Router with an old 486/66 Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 14:36:01 +0200 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3F3247B1.B2AFFE1@tid.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Dear all, I just got an old 486 with only 8 Megabytes with no CD-Rom. I put an 1,6 Gb HD and I am trying to get some more memory (which is quite difficult). I installed a RedHat 7.3 on other PC and then switch the HD to the 486, worked fine :) By now I have a Pentium II as gateway, but for two or three PCs connected in a home LAN I think Its too much and I would like to use that Pentium II as server. So I am trying to configure this old 486 as my gateway for my home lan. I have one ISA 3com 10/100 but I am wondering if It would be worth to buy another one only 10 Mbps because it is connect to a cable connection... For now everything is ok, my questions are: 1.- 8 Mbs are enough or I really need to try to find more memory. I mean, I am trying to get more memory but I wont buy more ISA network cards if 8 megs is not enough to make it work right, at least I wont buy more net cards until I find more memory... 2.- I am doing some research of how to also add wireless capabilities to such gateway. I didnt know until I read an article at O`Reilly that there are ISA-to-PCMCIA adapters and then I could use them in an old 486. My question is, those adapters work fine? I could used them in the case I update the PCMCIA wireless card to 802.11g ? Many thanks for your time and hope these question are not very off-topic. Miguel