Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:20:59 +0330 From: "Bahman M." <b.movaqar@gmail.com> To: "Erik Trulsson" <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minimal gateway hardware configuration Message-ID: <6d62f69a0708210350r75c1a0ach395e9f481df07f2b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070821101607.GA3819@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <6d62f69a0708210302h57c45e63nb08999b2ad03b831@mail.gmail.com> <20070821101607.GA3819@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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> Note: You need two LAN cards: One for the outside connection and one > to your internal network. (You probably already know that, but since you > referred to 'LAN Card' in the singular I thought I should mention it > anyway.) > Yes, the machine has 2 D-Link cards. > More than enough. > > I use a Pentium I @ 133MHz w/ 64MB RAM as a gateway with a faster Internet > connection (8Mbps down / 1Mbps up) and it has no problem keeping up. > > Earlier I had only 512 Kbps connection, and at that time used a 386sx @ > 33MHZ w/ 8MB RAM as gateway. It had no problem handling that speed. > Then my configuration is not minimal I'd say :-) Thanks. Bahman
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