Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 15:17:11 -0700 From: dmp@aracnet.com To: Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Cc: Michael Rothenberg <rothenberg@automationonline.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HW requirements Message-ID: <37D048E7.E67956F2@aracnet.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909031242170.336-100000@news.alleswirdgelber>
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Heiko Recktenwald wrote: > On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 dmp@aracnet.com wrote: > > Michael Rothenberg wrote: > > > I have asked my company cohorts to bring in all their unused computer > > > equip. I plan on making a BSD only box out of all the junk I collect. I > > > No less than 8MB. > > > And a big swap partition. > > I had a 486 with 16 MB Ram and only 10 MB swap (my first experimental > system, one 125 MB IDE drive, everything into /, it works). Sometimes the > screen gets many colors, system stops and reboots by itself (how perfect). > This could be circumvented by other 16 MB Ram. So there seems to be some > need for memory, besides the old rule, that swap should be twice as large > as RAM (and a little bit more). Yes, for a normal workstation. But Michael's building a gateway. NAT, xntpd, ipfw/ipfilter, and DNS don't need much. The only hardware capacity issue you really have to concern yourself with is having sufficient network hardware and processing power to handle a saturated internet link. Other than that, a few steps to fix potential security problems and DoS vulnerabilities and you're good to go. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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