From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 14 9:53:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dc.numbersusa.com (mail.whetstonelogic.com [205.252.46.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F2C815715 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 09:53:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@whetstonelogic.com) Received: from work (ts001d06.sal-or.concentric.net [207.155.239.18]) by dc.numbersusa.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA09157 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:22:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:22:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1.5.4.16.19990914092244.10d79ad0@mail.whetstonelogic.com> X-Sender: mark@mail.whetstonelogic.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@freebsd.org From: Mark Hartley Subject: Internet gateway/router machine Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am wanting to set up an old machine for my wife's parents with FreeBSD to act as an internet (ppp) gateway for their small (2 workstation) network. I've got one working perfectly serving my home network. My question is, would their old 386sx-20 with 8MB ram be able to handle 2 Win 95 boxes pulling traffic through it? I would put an internal 56K modem in the machine. I know I can install FreeeBSD on the machine, but would it be a bottleneck for them? I personally am using an old Pentium as my gateway, but I don't have any more of them lying around. Will a 386 be able to handle it, or should I try to scrounge up a cheap 486 or Pentium? Thanks. Mark. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message