From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 15 2: 9:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from defiant.taslug.org.au (DVBH-T-001-p-130-141.tmns.net.au [139.134.130.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8525915059 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 02:09:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shonson@planetquake.com) Received: from omega (dhcp162.ths.tased.edu.au [147.41.136.162]) by defiant.taslug.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA00538; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 19:08:09 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990915190832.007c5100@mail.planetquake.com> X-Sender: shonson@mail.planetquake.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 19:08:32 +1000 To: Mark Hartley From: Steven Honson Subject: Re: Internet gateway/router machine Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19990914092244.10d79ad0@mail.whetstonelogic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It should be fine, I use a 386/33 with 8mb ram as my gateway to the net for 5 machines over a 56k link, and have no problems what so ever, you could prob get away with running a caching nameserver on the same machine as well. -Steven At 12:22 PM 9/14/99 -0400, you wrote: >I am wanting to set up an old machine for my wife's parents with FreeBSD to >act as an internet (ppp) gateway for their small (2 workstation) network. >I've got one working perfectly serving my home network. My question is, >would their old 386sx-20 with 8MB ram be able to handle 2 Win 95 boxes >pulling traffic through it? I would put an internal 56K modem in the >machine. I know I can install FreeeBSD on the machine, but would it be a >bottleneck for them? I personally am using an old Pentium as my gateway, >but I don't have any more of them lying around. Will a 386 be able to >handle it, or should I try to scrounge up a cheap 486 or Pentium? > >Thanks. > >Mark. > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > --------------------------------------- Steven Honson Internet Technologist & Consultant Taroona High School, Australia shonson@hubbub.ths.tased.edu.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message