Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:23:06 -0400 From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) To: Nik Clayton <nik@blueberry.co.uk> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Routers - hardware received wisdom Message-ID: <199609181523.LAA03226@etinc.com>
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>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? Its totally dependent on how much local ethernet traffic you have. If you will be switching lots of traffic locally, you might be unhappy with a 33Mhz box. But at today's prices, what are you going to save? $10.? Its not worth it. 100Mhz processars are only $32 or so....you're spending more than that thinking about it. Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX
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