Saving old hardware

[Zxian]

Monowall will do that nicely for you, as well ClarkConnect (don't know if CC is free anymore...).

Here's a list for you to look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux...l_distributions

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

Excuse me jumping into the middle of a very interesting topic, but as regards this:

what software do you use to turn this into a router?

I use FREESCO. www.freesco.org

[schloss]

Thanks for both replies. I didn't know there was even a Wikipedia list.

I have a P1-133 and a P2-450 in the junk pile as well as a stack of 3Com NICs. Both computers hopelessy underpowered but nice and quiet because the CPU is passively cooled. Both also extremely heavy, incidentally, because of their very solid case + chassis. Another week-end project!