From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 27 9: 1: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.dbitech.bc.ca (i.caniserv.com [139.142.95.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 61DEF37B4C5 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:01:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 652 invoked from network); 27 Oct 2000 16:00:55 -0000 Received: from swen.wavefire.com (139.142.167.220) by 139.142.95.81 with SMTP; 27 Oct 2000 16:00:55 -0000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001027084836.03f5cd30@mail.wavefire.com> X-Sender: swen@mail.wavefire.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 08:55:22 -0700 To: Tim Erlin From: Chameleon Subject: Re: System Recommendation Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <14841.13437.679109.454888@guru.mired.org> References: <3314331@toto.iv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a 486 running with 16 megs of ram... but i'm upgrading to a AMD K5 with 32 Megs... I've found that Natd can get quite ugly sometimes... but a lower class pentium will work just fine, if you put ram into it... Swen At 02:53 AM 10/27/00 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: >Ken Bolingbroke writes: > > 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. :-) > >Yup. For the gateway box to be become the bottleneck, it has to be >incapable of shuffling data fast enough to fill your internet >connection. If you've got enough bandwidth for that to be possible >with anything FreeBSD will run on, then you've got more bandwidth than >you need for a low traffic site. > > > > > 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 > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD ('BSD'): No battles to the death are recalled. It is a small Daemon wearing sneakers. It is normally found on Internet servers and powerful desktops, and moves very quickly. A kill of this poweful creature is enough to tick off any sysadmin. It is highly magical, having the power to serve. It resists DoS and SYN flood attacks. Nothing is known about its attack. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message