From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 22 08:01:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96F7316A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 08:01:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (gaff.hhhr.ision.net [195.180.9.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 461F043D48 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 08:01:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ohoyer@ohoyer.de) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (ohoyer@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gaff.hhhr.ision.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6M81Ysr014397; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:01:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohoyer@ohoyer.de) Received: from localhost (ohoyer@localhost)i6M81XgT014394; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:01:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohoyer@ohoyer.de) X-Authentication-Warning: gaff.hhhr.ision.net: ohoyer owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:01:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Olaf Hoyer Sender: ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net To: "Hakim Z. Singhji" In-Reply-To: <40FF5A62.2010006@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <20040722095220.K14361@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> References: <40FF5A62.2010006@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Default Gateway??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 08:01:36 -0000 On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Hakim Z. Singhji wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi All, > > I'm building a default gateway on my network and I've decided to use > FreeBSD to support the gateway however, the machine I was planning to > use is extremely low tech. > > I wanted to know if a low amount of RAM would slow down my network? I'm > not going to use a KDE or GNOME GUI or even X for that matter. It will > only serve SSH and maybe FTP. So processes will be at a minimum. Hi! Well, when a Unix machine has to swap, then everything will of course going slower. So you need enough RAM for the application... > > Specs: > ~ *32M RAM (can upgrade to 512, however didn't really want to) > ~ *300Mhz > ~ *5G hda > > Will this BSD box slow down my network? Need some feedback, thanks in > advance. Depends on your network. I myself had a DSL Router built from a Pentium 100, 32 MB RAM and 2GG HDD, this acted as gateway, running ssh and sendmail/fetchmail on it, and it was sufficient, and had not to swap. So a text-only install will do, serving several clients as gateway. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)