Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 22:24:17 -0400 From: "Hakim Z. Singhji" <system-administrator@earthlink.net> To: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@ohoyer.de> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Default Gateway??? Message-ID: <410076D1.6050906@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20040722095220.K14361@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> References: <40FF5A62.2010006@earthlink.net> <20040722095220.K14361@gaff.hhhr.ision.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Olaf Hoyer wrote: | On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Hakim Z. Singhji wrote: | | |>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |>Hash: SHA1 |> |>Hi All, |> |>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. | | | Hi! | | Well, when a Unix machine has to swap, then everything will of course | going slower. So you need enough RAM for the application... | | | |>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 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBAHbRNF6tCt5tOyIRAsUiAKDs3Z/lLrI7cEIieaOTy+Cq0eYRAgCeNZWA T4L9yA15KdP1k065D2cTbB8= =u1+C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- [-- Attachment #2 --] 0 *H 01 0 + 0 *H _0 0s 0 *H 0b1 0 UZA1%0#U Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.1,0*U#Thawte Personal Freemail Issuing CA0 040720043733Z 050720043733Z0m10USinghji10 U*Hakim10U Hakim Singhji110/ *H "system-administrator@earthlink.net0"0 *H 0 2b 7ٕ*I< {٪"q3 pe@:B0Elcmejm1Ox`Hug_ N%s ˿ :-qt7,3C[Ȣ]Xh )Am{$u,$HgLj'̄3 6$ +{R cwE' 9:rd4b!} U&*tV?_d=?n ?0=0-U &0$"system-administrator@earthlink.net0 U 0 0 *H q 玛FKYz@PJ`}s)zF ] +Sc~KCRn kAE)as\$</Hxϖ vMtq^Q }^f 0 0s 0 *H 0b1 0 UZA1%0#U Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.1,0*U#Thawte Personal Freemail Issuing CA0 040720043733Z 050720043733Z0m10USinghji10 U*Hakim10U Hakim Singhji110/ *H "system-administrator@earthlink.net0"0 *H 0 2b 7ٕ*I< {٪"q3 pe@:B0Elcmejm1Ox`Hug_ N%s ˿ :-qt7,3C[Ȣ]Xh )Am{$u,$HgLj'̄3 6$ +{R cwE' 9:rd4b!} U&*tV?_d=?n ?0=0-U &0$"system-administrator@earthlink.net0 U 0 0 *H q 玛FKYz@PJ`}s)zF ] +Sc~KCRn kAE)as\$</Hxϖ vMtq^Q }^f 0?0 0 *H 01 0 UZA10U Western Cape10U Cape Town10U Thawte Consulting1(0&U Certification Services Division1$0"UThawte Personal Freemail CA1+0) *H personal-freemail@thawte.com0 030717000000Z 130716235959Z0b1 0 UZA1%0#U Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.1,0*U#Thawte Personal Freemail Issuing CA00 *H 0 Ħ<UsUNʙZ hup [v :aQP 0cZ,p+Z?qV˯< 6$*+w=+>@dקe*TH<a@ dr` 00U 0 0CU <0:08642http://crl.thawte.com/ThawtePersonalFreemailCA.crl0 U 0)U "0 0 10UPrivateLabel2-1380 *H HP . fgCL!6 -6/ P p<ab:~ t%Pb'qW%ݩ9 Oe_N4[5MwV!x!5$ F]_eO1;070i0b1 0 UZA1%0#U Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.1,0*U#Thawte Personal Freemail Issuing CA 0 + 0 *H 1 *H 0 *H 1 040723022417Z0# *H 1ʾޱq0R *H 1E0C0 *H 0*H 0 *H @0+0 *H (0x +71k0i0b1 0 UZA1%0#U Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.1,0*U#Thawte Personal Freemail Issuing CA 0z *H 1ki0b1 0 UZA1%0#U Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.1,0*U#Thawte Personal Freemail Issuing CA 0 *H m |:Nya_; jݿ*#o. ނjykϦRr%j7p_ gq u /Ԝ @&BoDoǁ 2:1j~! ,*նbi*R;l=;Jy(䶣?ʕ }2JC9&o*3jLj^ ,->:UnSfm] spiewbm#i {<kDc`g-bj#,9xNÖӗYzthome | help
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