Poll: cable modem gateway, which computer to use as it?

[Keego]

Just going to sit in a closet forwarding packets to 3 computers, wont even be running RC5!
Abit BP6 w/ dual 366@550
Gigabyte 7IXE4 w/ duron 850@935

 

[Poochy]

The Abit, and even then, I would say it's overkill for a router .

 

[goldboyd]

Both are massively overkill.

 

[Ptah]

I wouldn't waste either of those computers for such an easy task. Go look for a cheap pentium class machine, save those workstations for something else.

 

[Keego]

I cant. Gotta keep one of these setups for a CS server @ lan partys, so I have to have some power under the hood...

I haven't even decided on:
HDD space (5gb, 13gb, 15gb, 40gb, or 13+15 raided or 13+15+40 combined)
OS (win2k or linux)
Memory (128, 256, 384, 512, or 640)
Vid card (ati rage 128 16mb, GF1 ddr 32mb, GF2 ddr 64mb)

 

[Keego]

Maybe I should just sell it all and get one of those routers... then it'd render this linksys 10/100 hub that I just got in the Buy/sell forum useless :/

 

[Keego]

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