I stayed up late last night setting up my first Gentoo-based home router out of an old PC (500 Mhz Pentium III, 256 MB RAM). It has three interfaces (two LAN, one WAN), is fully optimized for the processor, and provides DHCP, DNS, and NAT services.
It was overall fairly easy following the online Gentoo documentation:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml
The longest part was all the time I spent trimming down the kernel (not strictly necessary but a lot of fun) and then it takes a long time for the kernel to build on a 500 Mhz box. It took probably 3-4 of my attention, including putting the PC together and testing the services, and about 7+ hours of computer time.
It was overall fairly easy following the online Gentoo documentation:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml
The longest part was all the time I spent trimming down the kernel (not strictly necessary but a lot of fun) and then it takes a long time for the kernel to build on a 500 Mhz box. It took probably 3-4 of my attention, including putting the PC together and testing the services, and about 7+ hours of computer time.
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