5 Aug
2006
5 Aug
'06
6:21 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Roy J. Tellason once stated:
I SSH _to_ that box but that's about it.
I have a 486DX2/66 that's my firewall/NAT system and it also runs Squid
(and I can SSH into it, but the initial login is a bit sluggish). Runs
great.
I also used a 486 as a webserver until a few years ago. Had an uptime of
444 days when I shut it down for the last time.
-spc (Ran Linux by the way ... )
Indeed.
I am currently using (and sending this stuff through) a
486dx2/66 for a firewall/router. And when I get done with that one for
whatever reason I have plenty more similar hardware to "use up" before I
move on to the Pentium-class hardware, of which I also have plenty.
They do have plenty of CPU power to act as NAT/firewall routers, but if
you want to run ssh, you'll find them a bit on the slow side. The 500Mhz PIII I replaced my P1 with now also
runs a squid proxy and an
adblocker as well.
Squid was one thing that I know of that might prompt me to upgrade a bit
sooner, as it'd cache stuff. I only have an adblock plugin in firefox but
that seems to do the job just fine.