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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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. 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