
I am a "Technologist", a Technology enthusiast that is usually the one that is called should a major catastrophe strike an end user. My saga of computer rescues becomes a plot that is ever so thickening, if not only for the fact that's it's becoming incredibly easy for hackers and malicious code writers these days to invade personal property to find, seek, and destroy. Each year, virus and hacker threats increase, and in addition the damage trail left behind is something of a problem. Not to forget, a majority of "PC Panic" cases I've come across are often times the same common, "major" problem.
"Slash, Can a Pentium 60-75 running a BSD OS be sufficient to be a Firewall?"
Yes, I have FreeBSD 3.4 on a 386SX/33 between my cable modem and my network. Works fine. Has since 3.4 was current. Doesn't do stateful firewall rules, but it does what I need - and that's the important part.