From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Sep 28 19: 7:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail-gw.pacbell.net (mail-gw.pacbell.net [206.13.28.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD4C81585C for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:07:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from madscientist@thegrid.net) Received: from remus (adsl-63-193-246-169.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.246.169]) by mail-gw.pacbell.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA17084; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:07:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19990928190018.00950cb0@mail.thegrid.net> X-Sender: i289861@mail.thegrid.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:06:29 -0700 To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org From: The Mad Scientist Subject: Re: Help me win the MS-Proxy/ipfw war Cc: "Scott I. Remick" In-Reply-To: References: <"Scott I. Remick"'s message of "Mon, 27 Sep 1999 20:05:24 -0400"> <4.2.1.4.19990927195047.00d813e0@mail.computeralt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:26 PM 9/28/99 +0200, you wrote: >"Scott I. Remick" writes: >> (what would you consider the recommended hardware for >> a FreeBSD firewall gateway to a 128K ISDN link?). > >P90 with 32 MB RAM, an 800 MB disk, a high-speed RS232 port and an >NE2000 network adapter. > >Of course, that kind of stuff is so obsolete (thank you, Microsoft) >that you'd have a hard time getting your hands on it, so go for a >Celeron 350 or something. > >DES >-- >Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no I'm running a 486 75MHz with 16M and 800M disk, 3 NE2000 NICs. It runs a 22 rule set and NAT. (plus qmail, ssh, etc) You could probably just find this kind of hardware behind a computer store. The machine never pages, never drops under 90% idle cpu time. My connection is a 300K down/128K up DSL line. -Dean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message