> -> 
> -> I am about to put together a quick and dirty router,
> -> consisting of a 486 with a couple of network cards.
> -> Does anyone know of a minimal NetBSD distribution
> -> which will support this - and which will reboot

please drop me mail if anyone want. 
.tar.gz takes 6.5MB, uncompressed 12MB, without kernel (compile yourself).

can be easily cut down much more, but now it have lots of useful tools
like sshd etc..

anyway fits on 40MB disk without problems