From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 1 18:55:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 165DE37B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 18:55:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cactus.fi.uba.ar (cactus.fi.uba.ar [157.92.49.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DF8443E3B for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 18:55:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar) Received: from cactus.fi.uba.ar (cactus.fi.uba.ar [157.92.49.108]) by cactus.fi.uba.ar (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g921qwHo073419; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:52:58 -0300 (ART) (envelope-from fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:52:58 -0300 (ART) From: Fernando Gleiser To: Liquid Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation In-Reply-To: <000901c26995$0e688690$6400a8c0@windows> Message-ID: <20021001224915.Y81915-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,TO_LOCALPART_EQ_REAL version=2.31 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 On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Liquid wrote: > Hey everyone. A family member asked me to setup a gateway in his house > so that the internet can be shared between a couple of tenants. I > realize it can be very easily done using a router, but I have this > 486dx2 50mhz at home with 8mb ram. It has a 300mb and 640mb hd in it > too. If I only wish to run a simple router setup using ipfilter and > ipnat, will it run FreeBSD? The only other services running being ssh > and perhaps ftp and I couldn't care less about how fast it runs, as long > as it "does its job" adequately. One other thing, seeing as it'll be > sharing PPPoE adsl, I'll have PPP running in dedicated mode at all > times. My home firewall is an old 486DX 50 MHz with 16 MB RAM. It runs ipf/ipnat/ ipmon and uses DHCP to get its IP addr. > > The reason I'm asking is because it only has 30-pin simm ram slots, and > I haven't even seen any for sale anywhere, nevermind whether or not its > close to reasonable. I realize that if it would have 16 MHz it would > probably run just fine. I think you need at least 12 MB RAM to install FreeBSD, but it runs with 8. You can try searching EBay, or getting more RAM for other discarded PCs :) Fer > > That brings the list of stuff running to > ppp -d > ftpd (maybe, I might just use the old burn a cdrom and drive over method > instead)0 > openssh > ipnat > ipfilter > > Any comments more than welcome. > > > Thanks, > Sandro M. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message