From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 16 16:22:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA27360 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 16:22:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lugh.kerris.com (lugh.kerris.com [142.77.242.145]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA27355 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 16:22:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mkerr@localhost) by lugh.kerris.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA06934; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 19:21:52 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 19:21:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Kerr To: Scott Blachowicz cc: freebsd-hardware@freeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minimal configuration for a home modem server/gateway? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Scott Blachowicz wrote: > 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 & > > 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. I am currently running a 386/40 with 8M RAM and a 200M hard drive. I am having no problems with mail, etc. With two modems stuck in it, then I'd imagine you'd have better performance than I. Running a POP server off it through an ethernet shouldn't put too much of a load on it. However, I'm not sure about how much of a resource hog Samba is. Mike.