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Date:      Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:52:58 -0300 (ART)
From:      Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To:        Liquid <liquid@liquidonline.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation
Message-ID:  <20021001224915.Y81915-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
In-Reply-To: <000901c26995$0e688690$6400a8c0@windows>

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On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Liquid wrote:

> 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.

My home firewall is an old 486DX 50 MHz with 16 MB RAM. It runs ipf/ipnat/
ipmon and uses DHCP to get its IP addr.

>
> 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.

I think you need at least 12 MB RAM to install FreeBSD, but it runs with
8. You can try searching EBay, or getting more RAM for other discarded
PCs :)


				Fer
>
> 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.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Sandro M.
>
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