Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:01:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@ohoyer.de> To: "Hakim Z. Singhji" <system-administrator@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Default Gateway??? Message-ID: <20040722095220.K14361@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> In-Reply-To: <40FF5A62.2010006@earthlink.net> References: <40FF5A62.2010006@earthlink.net>
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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)
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