And you could boot a small linux to act as a firewall/nat service [0] for your brand new cable modem service on a cheap 486. Ran that for 3-4 yrs before nat ro

And you could boot a small linux to act as a firewall/nat service [0] for your brand new cable modem service on a cheap 486. Ran that for 3-4 yrs before nat routers became a thing. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Router_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Router_Project