Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:19:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: slava <sl@zeus.dnt.md> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd router with 4mb RAM and two eth. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990512085751.20023B-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905121033470.13748-100000@zeus.dnt.md>
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On Wed, 12 May 1999, slava wrote: > I killed cron and syslogd on that machine and I keep only inetd > for telnet. I also have DUMMYNET compiled into the kernel. > I shape the bandwidth for traffic going out to the LAN to 64Kbit/s. > With this configuration the router works ok for a few hours, i can > telnet to it. After some time when I try to telnet again to it > it won't give me a login promt and would stop forwarding the packets > between interfaces at the same moment. It looks like it suffocates. > I can still ping the external ethernet card though. Only a cold reboot > can bring it back to life. > > I guess I will have to try a kernel without dummynet. Could it be because > of the dummynet not being able to work on 4mb RAM? Could be. I have a 486/33 with 4M RAM that handles about 1GB of traffic/day accross three interfaces. It's running syslogd and cron too :) Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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