From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 1 19: 1:55 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 3DDB637B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 19:01:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx4.magma.ca (mx4.magma.ca [206.191.0.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C66A43E75 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 19:01:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from liquid@liquidonline.ca) Received: from mail5.magma.ca (mail5.magma.ca [206.191.0.225]) by mx4.magma.ca (Magma's Mail Server) with ESMTP id g9221k3P021009; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:01:46 -0400 Received: from windows (ottawa-hs-64-26-167-192.d-ip.magma.ca [64.26.167.192]) by mail5.magma.ca (Magma's Mail Server) with ESMTP id g9221j5x010697; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:01:45 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: From: "Liquid" To: "'Fernando Gleiser'" Cc: Subject: RE: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:01:48 -0400 Organization: Liquidonline.ca Message-ID: <000201c269b7$ab5a03d0$6400a8c0@windows> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 In-Reply-To: <20021001224915.Y81915-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Thanks everyone for your input. Hopefully my cousin will take some interest in the box and he'll start messing with it until it breaks, so I can start learning again. My machine hasn't "broken" in months, its nearly boring now ;) >-----Original Message----- >From: Fernando Gleiser [mailto:fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar] >Sent: October 1, 2002 9:53 PM >To: Liquid >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation > >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