Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:43:24 +0000 (GMT) From: slava <sl@zeus.dnt.md> To: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@netwalk.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd router with 4mb RAM and two eth. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905121033470.13748-100000@zeus.dnt.md> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905111047500.83796-100000@insomnia.local.net>
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I killed cron and syslogd on that machine and I keep only inetd for telnet. I also have DUMMYNET compiled into the kernel. I shape the bandwidth for traffic going out to the LAN to 64Kbit/s. With this configuration the router works ok for a few hours, i can telnet to it. After some time when I try to telnet again to it it won't give me a login promt and would stop forwarding the packets between interfaces at the same moment. It looks like it suffocates. I can still ping the external ethernet card though. Only a cold reboot can bring it back to life. I guess I will have to try a kernel without dummynet. Could it be because of the dummynet not being able to work on 4mb RAM? slava. On Tue, 11 May 1999, James A. Mutter wrote: > > It's not absolutely necessary, if that's what you're asking. It is > however a good idea. You won't get any logging without syslogd, and > the default cron setup with FreeBSD takes care of a lot of "system > cleanup/maintanance" issues. > > If I were you, I'd leave both of them turned on. Neither is taking up > a substantial amount of CPU time, and the benefits of leaving them on > far outweigh the benefits of turning them off. > > On Tue, 11 May 1999, Veaceslav Revutchi wrote: > > : > :Hi > : > :I turned a 486sx with 4mb ram and 200mb HD into a router with two ethernet > :interfaces. I also run snmpd on that machine. > :My question is: do I really need to run syslogd and cron? > : > :veaceslav > : > : > : > :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
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