what can i do with a 486?

[deeptech71 at gmail.com]

Josh Paetzel wrote:
> deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:
>> Danny Pansters wrote:
>>
>> CPUs, SCSIs removed, faith removed.
>> Currently I don't have anything useful on the old board, such as a net card, 
>> but I'm planning to use it as a router, and I should be able to do VPN stuff. 
>> So I've left gif and tunnel and ppp. When I do have a NIC, I will enable some 
>> NIC support.
>> I've never used a printer/parallel port or a serial port, but google images 
>> revealed that I have them, so I've left them there.
>> I gather pty is for su's. Why do i need md?
>> Well, if a standard 6.2 installation doesn't use 4.x or 5.x binaries by 
>> default, like 3.4 binaries, then I will remove it.
>> Removed PS/2 mouse. Included MSDOS for mounting floppies.
>> What about apic?
>>
> 
> VPN over 56k maybe?  You're going to be very unhappy trying to use a 
> 486 for a VPN at anything approximating a sane data-rate, even more 
> so if you are short of RAM and dug into swap under normal operation.
> 

Oh I don't care, I'm happy with my hardware router. Fucks up only ~every month. 
Experience with old hardware & FreeBSD...

Minimal kernel + VPN prog needs more RAM than 8MB?