Re: Default Gateway???

From: Olaf Hoyer (ohoyer_at_ohoyer.de)
Date: 07/22/04

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    Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:01:33 +0200 (CEST)
To: "Hakim Z. Singhji" <system-administrator@earthlink.net>

    On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Hakim Z. Singhji wrote:

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    > Hi All,
    >
    > I'm building a default gateway on my network and I've decided to use
    > FreeBSD to support the gateway however, the machine I was planning to
    > use is extremely low tech.
    >
    > I wanted to know if a low amount of RAM would slow down my network? I'm
    > not going to use a KDE or GNOME GUI or even X for that matter. It will
    > only serve SSH and maybe FTP. So processes will be at a minimum.

    Hi!

    Well, when a Unix machine has to swap, then everything will of course
    going slower. So you need enough RAM for the application...

    >
    > Specs:
    > ~ *32M RAM (can upgrade to 512, however didn't really want to)
    > ~ *300Mhz
    > ~ *5G hda
    >
    > Will this BSD box slow down my network? Need some feedback, thanks in
    > advance.

    Depends on your network. I myself had a DSL Router built from a Pentium
    100, 32 MB RAM and 2GG HDD, this acted as gateway, running ssh and
    sendmail/fetchmail on it, and it was sufficient, and had not to swap.

    So a text-only install will do, serving several clients as gateway.

    HTH
    Olaf 

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