From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 1 15:16:19 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 6D03937B406 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:16:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from galilee.polands.org (new-24-208-57-240.new.rr.com [24.208.57.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7845A43E42 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:16:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from mydomain.com (babylon.polands.org [172.16.1.16]) by galilee.polands.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g91MGEZt062179; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:16:14 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from 63.104.35.130 (proxying for 164.5.45.35) (SquirrelMail authenticated user djp) by babylon.polands.org with HTTP; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:16:14 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <26850.63.104.35.130.1033510574.squirrel@babylon.polands.org> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:16:14 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation From: "Doug Poland" To: In-Reply-To: <000901c26995$0e688690$6400a8c0@windows> References: <000901c26995$0e688690$6400a8c0@windows> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.7) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 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. > > The reason I'm asking is because it only has 30-pin simm ram > slots, and I haven't even seen any for sale anywhere, nevermind > whether or not its close to reasonable. I realize that if it > would have 16 MHz it would probably run just fine. > > 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 > > Any comments more than welcome. > I'm successfully running a nework of 16 computers behind a 33MHz 80486 with 16MB memory and a 250MB disk. It has two NICs and runs sshd, ipfw, and natd on a RoadRunner cable modem. My only problem is the disk is so small I can't do an installworld to keep up with -STABLE. This box doesn't even breath hard. -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message