From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Sep 18 03:22:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA15835 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 03:22:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guava.blueberry.co.uk ([194.70.52.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA15800 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 03:22:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by guava.blueberry.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA26906 for isp@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:19:05 +0100 (BST) From: Nik Clayton Message-Id: <199609181019.LAA26906@guava.blueberry.co.uk> Subject: Routers - hardware received wisdom To: isp@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:19:05 +0100 (BST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I'm going to be requiring two network routers, and since FreeBSD is more than capable of the task, I figured I'd go for the cheap 486 option. One of these routers will be sat between a 2Mb/s leased line and a 10Mb/s ethernet, and the other will be between 2 10Mb/s ethernets. As far as I can tell, FreeBSD 2.1.5, a PCI based 66MHz 486DX with 16MB RAM and 2 DC201040 PCI network cards should be sufficient. But can I drop it any lower than that? Would the boxes be fine with 8MB RAM? What about 33MHz machines? Basically, I want to get this done on the lowest spec possible, because if I don't, I know that someone will say "Hey, those machines aren't doing much, can we run J. Random application on them as well?", and on the whole, I don't want that. I've hunted the mailing lists, and haven't seen anything that's that specific on this topic. Cheers, N -- --+=[ Blueberry Hill Blueberry Design ]=+-- --+=[ http://www.blueberry.co.uk/ 1/9 Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, ]=+-- --+=[ WebMaster@blueberry.co.uk London, England, SW10 0XE ]=+-- --+=[ Somedays, I wonder why I even bother chewing through the straps. ]ENTP