http://www.coyotelinux.com/ has a distribution that you can download and build a floppy based firewall/router. I've had one running for almost 6 months without a problem. Mine is a 486dx with 12mb of ram. It should would with 8mb of ram provided you don't load a bunch of modules into the kernel.
Brett Simpson
Internet Administrator for Hillsborough County
(813) 301-7144
simpsonb@hillsboroughcounty.org
>>> selinux@home.com 11/23/01 01:52AM >>>
On Friday 23 November 2001 01:00, you wrote:
> Just wasted my time on Freesco -- sure wish they'd state this up
> front! "Freesco doesn't support any PCMCIA"
> "and we are not going to add it, sorry."
>
> Next suggestion, please?
>
> Remember, I am looking for a small firewall for my IBM ThinkPad
> (laptop) with 8m RAM, 486dx/2 50mhz CPU, 360m HDD, FDD,
> and two PCMCIA ports -- no built-in nic or modem -- must handle
> PCMCIA nics to connect with external ADSL device.
> (Currently has Win95 loaded. That will be wiped.)
>
Doc ... have you looked at floppyfw? I think it can shimmy in at 8 meg
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total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1545352 911348 634004 0 335560 260784
Swap: 401584 0 401584
Total: 1946936 911348 1035588
Linux a.genesis.com 2.4.14 #3 Fri Nov 9 23:14:31 EST 2001 K7 750MHz
1:51am up 1 day, 23:38, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.09, 0.02
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