[ale] looking for a very lightweight distro

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Wed Jul 14 06:58:02 EDT 2010


On 07/14/2010 01:25 AM, jrtroberts wrote:
> I am looking for a very lightweight distro, something to run on a P2 era 
> computer maybe a bit earlier, It only needs to function as a router.  So 
> I need to use IP Tables to route between maybe two - five networks, My 
> sisters lan/internet connection in her APT and my father's backup 
> server(on a separate VLAN) in the house proper.  I am hoping that my 
> father has an old box that has room for 2 nic cards.  That seems to be 
> the cheapest route at the moment.

How much RAM?

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All the best,
Brian Pitts


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