Internet Gateway help

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First I would like to introduce myself.  My name is David Cooper.  I
have visited your meetings in the past (about 1 year ago) and I was
impressed with the knowledge of the group.  I was just checking linux
out back then and was more curious than trying to convert.  Well  the
time has come to convert.  But this will be a slow process for me.  Ok
on to my question.
 
As my first step to moving to linux I need to create a gateway for my
network.  Right now my server runs XP and is the gateway both I would
like to change this to a more secure gateway.  So here is what I want to
do.  I came upon an old computer that should work just fine.  The specs
are:
P90
64mb ram
4mb video
1 gb harddrive
Idealy I want this computer to run with only the floppy and no hard
drive (would this be reliable?).  But if I have to put a hard drive in
it this is no problem.  This computer will be the only thing between my
cable modem and the rest of the network.  My main questions are:
What distribution would work best?
Would the floppy be accessed a lot or is all the files stored in RAM?
Is this even feasible?
2 network cards or one?
Would this work with all other computers running Win XP?
 
Details on how to get this going would be best but I don't expect them.
If someone could maybe answer the questions above and just point me in
the right direction that would be a great help in itself.  The reason I
am starting off with this is the fact that I think this will be the
hardest part to set up and if I can get through this the rest should be
gravy.  Thanks for any help anyone can give me.
 
 
David Cooper
DC
 
 



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