From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 3 9:22:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.visi.com (baal.visi.com [209.98.98.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B16137B58C for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:22:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from orpheus@mail.visi.com) Received: from localhost.visi.com (orpheus.static.visi.com [208.42.12.80]) by mail.visi.com (8.8.8/8.7.5) with ESMTP id LAA00288; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:21:47 -0500 (CDT) Posted-Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:21:47 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from orpheus@localhost) by localhost.visi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3-CONDOLAN) id LAA19458; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:21:45 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:21:44 -0500 From: Jeffrey Dunitz To: ganizani phiri Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I want to setup dial-in connections to my box.what do i need Message-ID: <20000703112144.C19244@lemieux.condolan.asn> Reply-To: orpheus@avalon.net References: <001e01bfe330$941ff180$05a994d0@malawi.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <001e01bfe330$941ff180$05a994d0@malawi.net>; from ganizani@malawi.net on Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 09:47:15AM +0200 X-Blargh: This message is Blargh. (lemieux) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Vers Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 09:47:15AM +0200, ganizani phiri disait quelque chose comme: > I am running Freebsd-4.0 and I want to setup dial-in connections on the box. Could somebody tell me the minimum requirements interms of hardware and software for the setup to work. > > Thanks in advance. > > Ganizani. 386, 8MB of RAM, and the base OS will get you there. If you want the machine to be anything more than a dialin server, you might want more RAM. I have a dialOUT machine running in 8MB and it's just fine. DialIN shouldn't consume more resources than that, unless you're having multiple people dial in at once, and they run programs on the box. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jeffrey Dunitz | *** ENRGi.com *** | orpheus@avalon.net BOFH Emeritus, Avalon Networks | Network Engineer | (651) 686-9974 / http://www.avalon.net/~orpheus | Net/Sec/Dev/Arch | Eagan, MN _ / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message