From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 23 3:34: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1386437B401 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 03:34:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au (c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au [210.49.80.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0F6443ED8 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 03:33:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from server.c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au (localhost.c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by server.c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBNBXpBU014842; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 22:33:52 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter@server.c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au) Received: (from peter@localhost) by server.c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBNBXnBi014841; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 22:33:49 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 22:33:49 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy To: Gianmarco Giovannelli Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard Message-ID: <20021223113349.GA14827@server.c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20021221074556.02af7ea8@194.184.65.7> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 08:14:44AM +0100, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: >CPU: VIA C3 Samuel 2 (800.03-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "CentaurHauls" Id = 0x678 Stepping = 8 > Features=0x803035 >real memory = 266272768 (260032K bytes) ... >So for summary: It is quite perfect for be the FreeBSD router that manage >my adsl line and till now I can't find anything that not work as expected >(even if I think the cpu could be more fast :-) What do people expect their firewall/router to be doing? I'm using an old 486DX-50 with 20MB of RAM and a pair of ISA-bus SMC8013 cards to manage my cable connection using ipfilter and ipnat. It's definitely not a speed daemon but I managed to download the 5.0-RC ISO's at just over 440KBps - though I suspect this was close to saturating the CPU based on previous experiments. Unless you have something like a T3 (or better) connection, want to run applications, VPNs and natd, a 800MHz 686 is vast overkill. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message