Default Gateway???

[Hakim Z. Singhji]

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Olaf Hoyer wrote:
| 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.
|>
|>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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| So a text-only install will do, serving several clients as gateway.
|
| HTH
| Olaf

Hi Olaf,

Swap is not really a problem, I have 5G hda, which is plenty of space to
~ create a swap file with as much space as I need used for swap. I was
just concerned about the RAM and speed. Thanks for your help.

HZS


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