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  From: Alex Wallis <awol@prepaidonline.com.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 22:40:58 +0930

Re: Quick linux gateway..

Peter Gossner wrote:
> 
> On 11 May 2002 16:47:22 +0930, Gwyn Morfey <gwyn@dezyne.net> wrote:
> :> Hi -
> :>
> :> I'm trying to deploy an old p100 as an internet gateway for the two
> :> workstations at home. I have netcards, a hub, and some cables, and a
> :> modem for the p100. The idea is to set the p100 as a gateway, and have
> :> internet access completely transparent on the other machines, with the
> :> p100 dialing-on-demand to my ISP. A firewall and web cache would be a
> :> nice bonus.
> :>
> :> What's the easiest way to set this up? I'll probably be running Mandrake
> :> 8.2 on the p100, since I have CDs handy, but I can't use any graphical
> :> tools because I doubt it'll run X satisfactorily.
> Sure it will just chose a lightwieght interface.
> fvvm or something ugly. or twm (not so tiny window manager)
> (I've seen X running on 486 boxes --very slowly

I ran X just fine for about 5 years on an old 486DX33 with only 20M ram.
I still have a couple of 486's that run X. Maybe satisfactorily is the
keyword though, because it is slower on slow machines. Your call.
And fvwm isn't ugly! Just get the fvwm-themes package from
http://fvwm-themes.sourceforge.net and have any look you want.

</$0.02>

Alex

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