From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 19 07:12:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA22886 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 May 1997 07:12:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ssnet.com (uucp@marlin.ssnet.com [208.212.179.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA22879 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 07:12:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seitz.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by ssnet.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with UUCP id KAA06825 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 19 May 1997 10:11:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: by seitz.com; Mon, 19 May 97 10:05:13 EDT Message-ID: Date: 19 May 97 10:05:02 -0500 From: Chris Brown To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Class of machine needed for DNS & router. X-Mailer: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have to set up a primary DNS that will also route between two 10base2 ethernets with packet filtering. The line to the Internet will be a 128 K ISDN line so that bandwidth will be limited there. What class of machine is necessary for such a task? I have 3 machines laying around, a 386-DX 40, 486-DX 33 and a 486-DX2 66. At this point it doesn't make sense to commit too heavy a machine for this purpose and I'll put 16 Megs RAM and a 540 Meg had drive in it regardless of the processor. Since it is going to have the DNS 128 Megs of swap is probably necessary with the cached requests setting in the machine. Any comments would be appreciated.