Re: [Nolug] router on a floppy

    Everybody probably has a preference, but I've been using Freesco
for about 4 years without a hitch. It does what you're talking about
from a floppy, and all you need is about 16meg of RAM. You turn it on
and forget about it.
    Freesco's main drawback is that it doesn't do a very good job of
splitting bandwidth between the machines on your internal network.
This only shows up as a problem when you are doing large files (e.g.
iso images) on one machine. The others have to patiently wait until
they can get a packet in edgewise.
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com
http://www.originsresource.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher M. Jones <cjones@partialflow.com>
To: nolug@joeykelly.net <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Date: Friday, August 20, 2004 6:09 PM
Subject: [Nolug] router on a floppy

>I need to set up an old pc as a router. 3 ethernet ports and a dialup
>connection for two workstations and a networked printer. So I noticed
>that there is a score of micro distros for use as router. Anyone have
>any experience with these? What is the best? Whichever one I use
should
>support connection through the internet via dialup, and it should
have
>dial-on-demand.
>
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