From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 1 17:40:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BAC737B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:40:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from boris.st.hmc.edu (boris.ST.HMC.Edu [134.173.63.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DC6A43E3B for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:40:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff@unixconsults.com) Received: from boris.st.hmc.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by boris.st.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g920e5VZ011975; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:40:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jeff@localhost) by boris.st.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g920e3Ew011972; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:40:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff@unixconsults.com) X-Authentication-Warning: boris.st.hmc.edu: jeff owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:40:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Jirsa X-X-Sender: jeff@boris.st.hmc.edu To: Doug Poland Cc: Peter Leftwich , Subject: Re: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation In-Reply-To: <20021002002746.GA62914@galilee.polands.org> Message-ID: <20021001173816.U11968-100000@boris.st.hmc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter on boris.st.hmc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Doug Poland wrote: > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:22:34PM -0400, Peter Leftwich wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Doug Poland wrote: > > > Liquid said: > > > > Hey everyone. A family member asked me to setup a gateway in his > > > > house so that the internet can be shared between a couple of > > > > tenants. I realize it can be very easily done using a router, but > > > > I have this 486dx2 50mhz at home with 8mb ram. It has a 300mb and > > > > 640mb hd in it too. If I only wish to run a simple router setup > > > > using ipfilter and ipnat, will it run FreeBSD? The only other > > > > services running being ssh and perhaps ftp and I couldn't care > > > > less about how fast it runs, as long as it "does its job" > > > > adequately. One other thing, seeing as it'll be sharing PPPoE > > > > adsl, I'll have PPP running in dedicated mode at all times. > > > > > > > > > > > > That brings the list of stuff running to > > > > ppp -d > > > > ftpd (maybe, I might just use the old burn a cdrom and drive over > > > > method instead)0 > > > > openssh > > > > ipnat > > > > ipfilter > > > > > > I started with two 10Mbit hubs but had terrible results when I started adding > 100Mbit full-duplexing NICS on some servers. I "splurged" and bought a 16-port > 10/100 switch (the best $150US I've ever spent) and never looked back. > If you'd rather spend $30 and get something you know will work, you might consider refurbished netgear products (refurbished, but I've never had a problem...) from returnbuy.com ... For instance, you can get a decent router for $19.99 (search for rt311). - Jeff -- Jeff Jirsa jeff@unixconsults.com -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message