Default Gateway???

[Olaf Hoyer]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Hakim Z. Singhji wrote:

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> Hi All,
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> I'm building a default gateway on my network and I've decided to use
> FreeBSD to support the gateway however, the machine I was planning to
> use is extremely low tech.
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> I wanted to know if a low amount of RAM would slow down my network?  I'm
> not going to use a KDE or GNOME GUI or even X for that matter.  It will
> only serve SSH and maybe FTP. So processes will be at a minimum.

Hi!

Well, when a Unix machine has to swap, then everything will of course
going slower. So you need enough RAM for the application...


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> Specs:
> ~   *32M RAM (can upgrade to 512, however didn't really want to)
> ~   *300Mhz
> ~   *5G hda
>
> Will this BSD box slow down my network? Need some feedback, thanks in
> advance.

Depends on your network. I myself had a DSL Router built from a Pentium
100, 32 MB RAM and 2GG HDD, this acted as gateway, running ssh and
sendmail/fetchmail on it, and it was sufficient, and had not to swap.

So a text-only install will do, serving several clients as gateway.

HTH
Olaf
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