[Gllug] Old small laptop firewall option? Or just send it to the recycling centre?

[M.Blackmore]

Another old desktop p90 has died, thats the last of them. That leaves an
old (ca 1993 or 94 vintage) 486 dx100 laptop with 20mb of ram and a
humongous 1 gb of disk drive (wow), no cd, but a 1.44mb floppy.

Is there a firewall that will run on such a box? Got one 10mbs pcmcia
netcard, would need another. 

Have the advantage of being low energy consumption...

Is it worth the effort of begging another pcmcia nic and setting this up
with some sort of firewall software? What will run on such limited
resources and be a reliable firewall compared to smoothwall or ipcop
(which I've been using for years)?

Or is it really far too ancient a beast for even such a limited use and
really ought to head off to the recyclers? I've not used it for a year
or so (still used PC Outline for drafting longer articles at times
y'see, still not really come across an outliner that is as neat and
accessible even after all these years, must check it out in a dos
emulation under linux one day unless someone can suggest something
equally nifty under linux).

I've been running smoothwall on P90s with a stonking huge 128mb of ram
in them (old old ram just had an old system maxed out years and years
ago) and a diminishing supply of ca 400-500mb size hard disks, so this
would be a step down in cpu and ram.

A step down too far? How far does one go to use up the embedded
environmental cost of manufactured products until they actually expire?

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