From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 27 6:18:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FF5A37B405 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 06:18:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-119aekg.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.58.144] helo=ns.flconsulting.com) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16JbMK-0003QX-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 06:18:13 -0800 Received: (from mlevy@localhost) by ns.flconsulting.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBRDGR400852 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 08:16:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 08:16:25 -0500 From: Bara Zani To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd as an internet gaetway - some questions . Message-ID: <20011227081624.A541@weebo.flconsulting.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi to all , I have a friend who needs to setup a small home-office network . I answered most of his questions but wanted your opinion / experience /views . The hardware is a P166 with 32mb ram and plenty of disk space . the internet link is dsl . he will have three clients in the office and two laptops in field . here's the parts i'm not sure of : 1. will a p166 with 32 mb ram running freebsd will be strong enough to be a gateway ( i think yes but i wonder what your thaughts are ) . 2.assuming the laptop users have windows 2000 , can they use pptp to "vpn" to the office through the freebsd box ? thanks and happy new year to all , barazani To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message