Pentium 1 200Mhz good enough for smoothwall

[ThE cHiCkEn]

I have this old Pentium 1, 200Mhz machine with 50MB of RAM and a 1.2GB HDD. I was wondering if this would be good enough for a smoothwall box or should i chuck it off a 16 story building:D

[ErikD]

It would work for a plain Smoothwall with no mods or anything ok. Try and up the RAM as much as possible and you will be golden.

[RoadWarrior]

Should be great. I was using a 486 with 32MB for a router box for a while. I was replacing it with a Pentium class machine though because the ISA network cards seemed to fall over on heavy load, wanted to go to PCI, but before I got that box finished I aquired a standalone router, and it has been working out good so far. When I get my comp room set up in the basement though, I'll probably have another router down there of similar spec.

486 was fine for normal internet sharing had uptimes of 3 months or so between power glitches, didn't notice much extra latency or reduced DL speed. However, P2P, torrents etc, seemed to lock up the ISA NICs, so go for PCI NICs and it will be sweet.

[ThE cHiCkEn]

Cool. thanks for the input. just another question, I got another of the exact same computer and I was thinking of using it as a web server. I know you don't need much power for this but I'm concerned about an operating system to run on this. I don't really want to use windows 95 or 98, and I was thinking of going Linux. Does anyone know of the best distro for this?

Sorry for all the questions but I'm a bit of a n00b.

[Trombe]

I'm using a P133 to host a web page which you can test here (http://trombe.ath.cx) if you would like to get a feel for long it takes things to load. (Some java applets, pictures, and text filled html).
As for operating system, it's on windows 98 simply because I like to keep it simple and easy.

[ThE cHiCkEn]

Doesn't take long to load at all^^^ So your running win98, what have you modified about it? i was going to run Linux but since I don't know anything about Linux I might just run Win98.