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Date:      Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:01:48 -0400
From:      "Liquid" <liquid@liquidonline.ca>
To:        "'Fernando Gleiser'" <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation
Message-ID:  <000201c269b7$ab5a03d0$6400a8c0@windows>
In-Reply-To: <20021001224915.Y81915-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>

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Thanks everyone for your input.  Hopefully my cousin will take some
interest in the box and he'll start messing with it until it breaks, so
I can start learning again.  My machine hasn't "broken" in months, its
nearly boring now ;)

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Fernando Gleiser [mailto:fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar]
>Sent: October 1, 2002 9:53 PM
>To: Liquid
>Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation
>
>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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