From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Sep 28 18:20:50 1995 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA12131 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 18:20:50 -0700 Received: from gateway.us.sidwell.edu (gateway.us.sidwell.edu [198.3.254.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA12123 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 18:20:44 -0700 Received: (from rwatson@localhost) by gateway.us.sidwell.edu (8.6.12/8.6.10) id VAA19773; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 21:20:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 21:20:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: rwatson@gateway.us.sidwell.edu To: Don Littlefield cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minimum hardware for a bridge... In-Reply-To: <199509290023.RAA06669@value.net> Message-ID: Organization: The Sidwell Friends School MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk We used a 386dx33 with 4 megs of ram to route between 3 ethernets and a slip line for quite a while (the upgrade to 8 megs made a big difference each time we added another card though). Thiese were SMC Elite Ultra BNC cards -- althoug our ethernt wasn't very active, it performed nicely (we had about 20 workstations running netscape to access the server on a different ethernet) -- we pulled routing at abou 400k per second fts and so on (kbytes not kbits). I was very very impressed -- just don't plan to get much interactive use out of the system. Also, try getting 8 instead of 4 -- it'll make a big difference if you have config changes and kernel compiles to do. I haven't tried routing on anythnig less than a dx33, so who knows how the 25 will perform. If it's just slip/ppp to ethernet, it'll do great. On Thu, 28 Sep 1995, Don Littlefield wrote: > I was thinking of building a bridge using a 386 Dx25. It only has to be > a minimal system.. Currently I just have the motherboard, and old ATI VGA > 512k video board, and a WD8000e network card.. I need a disk drive, memory > and thats about it...oh, and a case :) > > So I was thinking about: > > 420 meg HD > 4 megs ram > > and thats about it... > > The main system is my current 486 dx2 66 machine which is also running > freebsd. > > Does anyone have any insights/advice on using a 386 with my proposed config? > > Thanks, Don Littlefield II > Robert Watson (rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu) IDS/CS Double Major School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University SMC 1605 / P.O. Box 2888 / Pittsburgh, PA 15230-2888 // (412) 862-3197