From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 26 16: 2:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4DD737B479 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:02:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (fremont.bolingbroke.com [216.102.90.210]) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (Switch-2.1.0/Switch-2.1.0) with ESMTP id e9QN1ir63185; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:01:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:01:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Bolingbroke To: Tim Erlin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System Recommendation In-Reply-To: <20001026225825.25804.qmail@web1106.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For low traffic? I have a '386 with 20MB RAM doing exactly that, running web, mail, DNS, and NAT in front of several other machines. It performs adequately, at least. :-) Ken On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Tim Erlin wrote: > I'd like to put a FreeBSD box running NAT and ipfw in > front of a low traffic web/mail server (also FreeBSD) > and 1-2 other machines (win98). Cost is a major > factor, so the real question is: how low can I go and > still get adequate performance...PII, P, 486???? > --Tim > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. > http://im.yahoo.com/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message