From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 16 13:57:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA17350 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 13:57:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwnexus.wa.com (nwnexus.wa.com [192.135.191.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA17344 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 13:57:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.statsci.com (ns1.statsci.com) by nwnexus.wa.com with SMTP id AA22574 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Fri, 16 Aug 1996 13:57:08 -0700 Received: from statsci.com [206.63.206.4] with smtp by main.statsci.com with smtp (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.3 #3) id m0urVx5-000QYDC; Fri, 16 Aug 96 13:57 PDT Message-Id: To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Minimal configuration for a home modem server/gateway? Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 13:57:06 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi- My wife keeps wanting to drag our "high powered" home PC into Windows land for her normal daily activities (unimportant things like DayTimer, calendar, Quicken, word processing, spreadsheets, games, and such :-)). At any rate, we get my email at home via UUCP from work using the PC in its FreeBSD personality...it'd be nice for my wife to be able to check her email without having to reboot the system and I'd like to dial in to work occasionally without having to leave Windows, so I was thinking it might be nice to have a low powered gateway system that just acts as a modem server. Plop samba and an IMAP/POP server on it and off we go. So, minimum qualifications would include the ability to drive one or maybe two modems at normal high speed (which I guess, these days, would mean 57.6K or 115.2K) and a cost that fairly closely approximates zero dollars. It would also need a cheap networking (I've got a combo [TP & coax] card in my current PC to hook up to or some sort of parallel/serial networking connection) so my current PC could talk to it. If I want to do this, my choices are to install NetBSD on an oldish Amiga or to scrounge an el-cheapo PC to put FreeBSD on. So my question for this list would be along the lines of what you would consider to be a minimal hardware configuration (386 or 486; RAM; disk space; whatever) for this kind of system. Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org