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pofnlice:
uh huh....

I have a Motorola surfboard SB5101E connecteed to a hewlett-packard pavilion 6465 (pentium II, 466MHz w/ 128Mb ram) to a Lincsys 5 port router then to the rest... do what you like...it's your stuff!

H_TeXMeX_H:
So you're saying you wanna make a router out of a computer. Well I could think of many better things to with that computer than make it into a router. Just buy a router and use the computer as a computer is meant to be used. And why would a router need a 3dfx Voodoo2 ? :rolleyes:

Pathos:
I would set it up to do more than routing.

add a large hard drive for backup and storage with SAMBA.
add a wireless card and set it up as a wireless access point.
set it up as a torrent client/scheduler.

worker201:
If you can't find anything else to do with it, you could give it to some poor ghetto school in your area.

bedouin:
DD-WRT is Linux firmware for the WRT-54G series of routers that can run Linux (not all can).  Since they're running Linux, you get all of the features you would get with a Linux distribution, like Samba support, SSH, VPNs, and then other cool stuff like turning your router into a hotspot -- all while consuming maybe 7 inches of space and not hearing whirling fans 24-7.  Plus there's a whole series of hacks and mods for it to do stuff like add external storage, overclocking, and of course what the hacked firmware was designed for in the first place: increasing your signal strength (even beyond legal limits, though you'll want to add some cooling since things will be getting hot in there.)

If you want some kind of l33tness factor hack your WRT54G to death.  Putting a bootdisk in a 486 has been done a million times over, and it's just clumsy by today's standards.

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