Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:50:10 -0700 From: "Ras-Sol" <ras-sol@usa.net> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, "Ken Bolingbroke" <hacker@bolingbroke.com> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: System Recommendation Message-ID: <0e7701c04046$bb615360$6d0a280a@speedera.com> References: <14841.13437.679109.454888@guru.mired.org>
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Well, I've got a 486dx2-50 with 12mb doing NAT for my house. At first I had it set up doing PPPoE on the DSL line- And it performed fine. But- I did notice that now that I have a static IP, and the box is simply doing NAT (with no PPP). The connection is noticeaby faster- (smoother, less "blocky", if that makes any sense) However, the box was barely being utilized even with PPP running, so I think the "blockyness" was more on their PPP server's end. Anyway- any old 486 should be cool- And 12mb is enough for a few VTs, sshd, ppp, and a couple perl scripts running in the bg- -- -sex:blood:heaven- AIM: IMFDUP ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 12:53 AM Subject: Re: System Recommendation > 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 > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. > > > http://im.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > 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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