On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:36:40PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > >
> > Exactly. I thought that everybody using unix has enough sense to
> > understand that hardware is not measured in means of speed but in means of
> > usability. 386DX-40 is good enough for routing, 486DX4-100 is fast enough
> 
> 386DX-40, 486DX-33 are exactly machines i use for routing..over 10
> routers, both gets 3 months uptime or more.
One of my radionet 486DX25 based routers (running IPv6-only!) just
missed its 800 day (>2 years) uptime mark due to a prolonged power-failure.
Thumps up for NetBSD (and Kame) and its developers from me!

It ran NetBSD 1.5 and routed multiple Terabytes of IPv6 traffic during
that uptime (now this should impress any Other-OS-IPv6 user that started
using IPv6 a few years ago). In addition, I guess we are not the only ones
that are still *ordering* 486 boxes to use as routers or `embedded'
functions as it is hard to run a 2Ghz Pentium on a battery, noise
free... outside a fridge. Definately not old crap.

Feico.
PS: And if you want a nice modern laptop, you buy a nice powerbook
instead of inferior intel junk. Right? At least it is quite responsive
to *me* :).