<div dir="auto">The best I ever done is 486dx 8MB Ram. Running Linux on floppy with PPPoE dialer and masquerading the internet to local LAN. I think also was doing some simple QoS. No data loss everything was in RAM. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Running 100W for firewall is a stretch unless is really complicated one and needs the CPU power.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 Sep 2017 11:03 PM, "Steve Litt" <<a href="mailto:slitt@troubleshooters.com">slitt@troubleshooters.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 21:04:58 -0400<br>
Joey Kelly <<a href="mailto:joey@joeykelly.net">joey@joeykelly.net</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Guys,<br>
><br>
> I see posts about pfSense, dd-rwt, Ubiquiti and the like. I'm not<br>
> knocking them, but asking rather if anyone still rolls their own *nix<br>
> NAT box running on dumpster hardware, like we used to to in the old<br>
> days.<br>
><br>
<br>
I do.<br>
<br>
I've been saying for years, soon I'll buy low power machine to save<br>
power. But til then, pfSense or just plain OpenBSD/pf on 10 year old<br>
former daily driver computer.<br>
<br>
SteveT<br>
<br>
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