From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 23 7:41:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DCCF37B401 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 07:41:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2639843EDC for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 07:41:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from earnoth@comcast.net) Received: from jefferson (pcp02897252pcs.maplln01.de.comcast.net [68.85.111.118]) by mtaout06.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.07 (built Nov 25 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H7K000DPWVRP6@mtaout06.icomcast.net> for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 10:40:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 10:43:45 -0500 From: Eric Arnoth Subject: Re: Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard In-reply-to: <20021223113349.GA14827@server.c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au> To: Peter Jeremy , Gianmarco Giovannelli Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <200212231043.45808.earnoth@comcast.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20021223113349.GA14827@server.c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 23 December 2002 6:33 am, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 08:14:44AM +0100, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > >CPU: VIA C3 Samuel 2 (800.03-MHz 686-class CPU) > > Origin =3D "CentaurHauls" Id =3D 0x678 Stepping =3D 8 > > Features=3D0x803035 > >real memory =3D 266272768 (260032K bytes) > > ... > > >So for summary: It is quite perfect for be the FreeBSD router that man= age > >my adsl line and till now I can't find anything that not work as expec= ted > >(even if I think the cpu could be more fast :-) > > What do people expect their firewall/router to be doing? > > I'm using an old 486DX-50 with 20MB of RAM and a pair of ISA-bus > SMC8013 cards to manage my cable connection using ipfilter and ipnat. > It's definitely not a speed daemon but I managed to download the > 5.0-RC ISO's at just over 440KBps - though I suspect this was close > to saturating the CPU based on previous experiments. I too use 486's of various CPU speeds w/FreeBSD for all my network device= s at=20 home. I have three firewalls & two IDS, none of which are better than=20 486DX-75 (except one IDS is a Pentium overdrive in a 486DX-33Mhz board) a= nd=20 all perform quite well. I haven't actually done any perfromance measurin= g of=20 a formal nature, but the casual vmstat has never shown me a CPU less than= 80%=20 idle. Gotta love old hardware.... :) --=20 Eric I. Arnoth http://mywebpages.comcast.net/earnoth CISSP (http://www.isc2.org) http://watch-tower.sourceforge.net earnoth@comcast.net http://www.honeypotdiary.org =20 =A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=BA=B0*=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=BA= =B0*=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=BA=B0*=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8= ,=F8=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=BA=B0*=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8 Tolkien Authentication - one root to rule them all.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message