Hello ladies,

Just wanted to know if anyone here tried to set up a dedicated firewall on a mimimal system performance (i'm speaking here of boosted 486, or low-end pentium).

I mean this firewall should handle a DSL line running =700 Kb/s.

I tried with a 486dx2-80, 64 Mo EDO, 2 x Ethernet 10M/bits..... had low bandwith performances and lag on games.

Also this system was running RedHat 6.2 with SSHd and masquerading.

So my questions are :

1) have succesfully setted up a dedicated firewall, if yes with what hardware for a DSL line.

2) what system were you running. Should I move to FreeBSD for performance reason ?

Thanks A+ hantiz.