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>
>> small but expensive. used 486-pentium hardware is for free.
>
> 486 hardware with three NICs, a CF drive, and run off of a few watts of DC 
> power tend not to free.

that's the adventage. but edimax 6104K router with 5 ethernets running 
netbsd is both cheaper smaller and faster with it's 175Mhz 2 instr/cycle 
MIPS CPU. 16MB RAM+2MB flash isn't much but enough to fit.