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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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