Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 09:55:51 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brant M. Katkansky" <bmk@fta.com> To: scott@statsci.com (Scott Blachowicz) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minimal configuration for a home modem server/gateway? Message-ID: <199608171655.JAA00800@everest.dtr.com> In-Reply-To: <m0urVx5-000QYDC@main.statsci.com> from "Scott Blachowicz" at Aug 16, 96 01:57:06 pm
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> 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. I used a 386DX-25 with 8MB RAM and a 120MB disk for almost exactly the same purposes until the motherboard died. You should be able to get a cheap ethernet card for next to nothing. I found the configuration to be adequate for the job. I would imagine that nowadays you could put together such a machine for pretty close to zero dollars.
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