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To: Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com>
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Ken Bolingbroke writes:
> For low traffic?  I have a '386 with 20MB RAM doing exactly that, running
> web, mail, DNS, and NAT in front of several other machines.  It performs
> adequately, at least. :-)

Yup. For the gateway box to be become the bottleneck, it has to be
incapable of shuffling data fast enough to fill your internet
connection. If you've got enough bandwidth for that to be possible
with anything FreeBSD will run on, then you've got more bandwidth than
you need for a low traffic site.

	<mike


> On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Tim Erlin wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to put a FreeBSD box running NAT and ipfw in
> > front of a low traffic web/mail server (also FreeBSD)
> > and 1-2 other machines (win98). Cost is a major
> > factor, so the real question is: how low can I go and
> > still get adequate performance...PII, P, 486???? 
> > --Tim
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