From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 10:45:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E40137B401 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:45:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cobalt.4gl.com (cobalt.4gl.com [66.212.110.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A3D443FB1 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:45:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbettinger@championelevators.com) Received: from helpdesk.championelevators.com (node-97-98.4gl.com [66.212.97.98] (may be forged)) by cobalt.4gl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA27351; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:03:50 -0500 From: Matthew Bettinger Organization: Champion Elevators, inc. To: "J. Seth Henry" , Mykroft Holmes IV Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:45:05 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <1060871994.5979.12.camel@alexandria> <3F3BA7D8.9060006@explosive.mail.net> <1060882405.7296.61.camel@alexandria> In-Reply-To: <1060882405.7296.61.camel@alexandria> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308141245.05683.mbettinger@championelevators.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as router - performance vs hardware routers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: mbettinger@championelevators.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:45:18 -0000 On Thursday 14 August 2003 12:33 pm, J. Seth Henry wrote: > Wow, I think you guys have convinced me. I have had very good luck > with FreeBSD on an 933MHz EPIA board. It has performed well, and > remained stable for several months now. Nary a single lockup, even > under load (though it doesn't like floating point math much - > folding@home crashes immediately) 933??? That's way over kill. Heck my best intel machine at the house is an 750. You'd be wasting that machine if you ask me. The 933 would come in handy if you plan on cvsing and building the source. Since my router is onlyan p133 I just reformat the box every month or so and install from floppies over the net and then scp my conf files back over and i'm back up. Time to do this: ~45 mins ? > One quick question, though - how much RAM should I install in this > beast? I have a 65Mb DIMM laying around, but I could probably pull > some 128's from my Windows box if need be. 65 is plenty!! -- Matthew Bettinger System Administrator Champion Elevators, Inc. Houston, Texas 77061 713.640.8500 -- Key fingerprint = 1510 343D 41A3 5D55 D3AF 1ED7 72CD 7022 A70A 39F4 http://championelevators.com/~mbettinger/pubkey.htm