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NewsForge: Build Yourself a Linux-based Internet Gateway
May 19, 2004, 07 :00 UTC (17 Talkback[s]) (13107 reads)

(Other stories by Olaf Piesche)

"My Windows Internet gateway was running slower than a snail going uphill, even on a pretty speedy machine (a 1.3GHz Athlon), but when it started crashing regularly, I knew I had to do something. I downloaded and burnt Mandrake 10.0 Community, opened up a very old computer (with a CPU clock in the low three figures), and took care of the problem once and for all.

"I've got an Athlon XP 1700+ that I use for my personal and professional tasks, and two more computers in the house, all hooked to a DSL modem through one of the machines, which acts as a gateway. All of the computers are running Windows, including the gateway..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
...I've always found it much easier  ...   While it's interesting to use a full distro fo   
Richard Steiner
May 19, 2004, 08:43:39
 
i agree with richard.. using a full blow ...   Agreed   
pete
May 19, 2004, 12:30:38
 
> It works just fine on my 20MB 486/DX10 ...   Re: While it's interesting to use a full distr   
Don Brock
May 19, 2004, 13:09:29
 
"The CDs contain a Windows executable th ...   No such software   
Tony OBryan
May 19, 2004, 13:12:09
 
A purpose-built distribution is probably ...   I agree with Richard   
T Harris
May 19, 2004, 13:14:04
 
"...distribution-proprietary tools like  ...   Proprietary?   
Tony OBryan
May 19, 2004, 13:21:38
 
The author stated that telnet was going  ...   Security   
smallchange
May 19, 2004, 16:24:58
 
> > It works just fine on my 20MB 486/DX ...   Re: Re: While it's interesting to use a full d   
Void Main
May 19, 2004, 16:57:48
 
With a gateway/router, the less you have ...   Why use a distro? or even Linux for that matte   
ac
May 19, 2004, 17:00:19
 
For starters, Mandrake includes Shorelin ...   He did it the hard way!   
Dave Hollis
May 19, 2004, 21:11:45
 
I was using a 486/133 for a while, but g ...   Re: While it's interesting to use a full distr   
Brent R Brian
May 20, 2004, 00:02:15
 
with Slack 9.x. serving my two personal  ...   my GW is a P133 with 32mb   
Xunil Ung
May 20, 2004, 00:30:33
 
 > It works just fine on my 20MB 486/DX1 ...   Re: Re: While it's interesting to use a full d   
ac
May 20, 2004, 02:05:05
 
It's been working for about 3 years  ...   Mine is 486 66MHz w/32MB   
Chris Carlen
May 20, 2004, 02:27:18
 
1Ghz PC for a SOHO GW!!!?? My GW is a P1 ...   Re: my GW is a P133 with 32mb   
Tuqui
May 20, 2004, 02:53:46
 
> such low resource machines do work OK, ...   Re: Re: Re: While it's interesting to use a fu   
Void Main
May 20, 2004, 03:27:32
 
> For starters, Mandrake includes Shorel ...   Re: He did it the hard way!   
Tony OBryan
May 20, 2004, 13:27:32
 
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