[Wolves] Linux firewall in 16MB ?

[Adam Sweet]

 --- Andy Wootton <andy.wootton at wyrley.demon.co.uk>
wrote: 
> I have a choice of two highly desirable antique PCs
> to use as a 
> firewall. One is a a 486/66 and one a P133. The P133
> has 16MB of memory 
> and the 486 40MB. Either would have done the job a
> year ago.
> 
> I want to use a distro that is still being security
> patched but nothing 
> seems to run in less than 64MB any more. I've tried
> an Ubuntu "custom" 
> install (starts to install with 40MB then randomly
> hangs after a few 
> hours of hard labour - without giving me any chance
> to enable the swap 
> file). I read the spec. of Fedora (64MB for a text
> install!) and 
> Smoothwall. The new Debian installer booted off
> floppies won't even run 
> in 16MB.

For my 2 pence, as you heard tonight, you can get
Smoothwall 1.0 up and running in 16MB, but as Ron told
me some time back, try to put the updates on and you
have problems. Problem is that it is no longer
supported.

Smoothwall 2.0 requires 32MB min, 64MB pref and is
supported. My Smoothwall box is a 133MHz, 32MB, 512MB
HD and runs with no problems.

I'm guessing that IP Cop is much the same as it's
codebase was originally Smoothwall.

How you get it on your machine with no removable
drives I don't know, hopefully you got some pointers
tonight :)

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