From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 2 14:53:02 2005 Return-Path: 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 3AE7D16A4CE for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 14:53:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3573343D3F for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 14:53:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ph.schulz@gmx.de) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 02 Jan 2005 14:53:00 -0000 Received: from dsl-213-023-052-249.arcor-ip.net (EHLO [192.168.1.4]) (213.23.52.249) by mail.gmx.net (mp020) with SMTP; 02 Jan 2005 15:53:00 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1954550 Message-ID: <41D80AD6.3070308@gmx.de> Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 15:53:10 +0100 From: Phil Schulz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran References: <000001c4f09b$f67534d0$68bbbbc0@kewdaeahnhd04i> <20050102093214.10d4b2e1.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20050102093214.10d4b2e1.wmoran@potentialtech.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 cc: Victor Foulk cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Gateway X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 14:53:02 -0000 Bill Moran wrote: > "Victor Foulk" wrote: [...] >>What I really had hoped to find, was more of an experienced >>networking guru's thumb rule equating the number of safeLAN >>workstations with the required gateway RAM/Processor; to >>enable all safeLAN users to experience a minimal network >>transaction time roughly equivalent to what they would see >>if plugged directly into a really good hub. >>Something maybe in the form of: >>Proc Speed = X*Users+Y >>RAM = W*Users+Z >> I don't think _anybody_ can give such a formula. Especially not whithout knowing how much and what kind of traffic your users generate. But as others have said already, good NICs are essential. > > As a general rule of thumb, I won't put FreeBSD on anything smaller > than a 1Ghz with 128M of RAM and 4G of disk space. While you can > get away with smaller, that's about the minimum before using the > box for maintenance purposes becomes a terrible burdon. Try upgrading > and rebuilding world on a 266! > You can always build world remotely. 1GHz seems to be overkill for a router. Just think of energy consumption. Regards, Phil.