On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Liquid wrote:
> Hey everyone. A family member asked me to setup a gateway in his house
> so that the internet can be shared between a couple of tenants. I
> realize it can be very easily done using a router, but I have this
> 486dx2 50mhz at home with 8mb ram. It has a 300mb and 640mb hd in it
> too. If I only wish to run a simple router setup using ipfilter and
> ipnat, will it run FreeBSD? The only other services running being ssh
> and perhaps ftp and I couldn't care less about how fast it runs, as long
> as it "does its job" adequately. One other thing, seeing as it'll be
> sharing PPPoE adsl, I'll have PPP running in dedicated mode at all
> times.
My home firewall is an old 486DX 50 MHz with 16 MB RAM. It runs ipf/ipnat/
ipmon and uses DHCP to get its IP addr.
>
> The reason I'm asking is because it only has 30-pin simm ram slots, and
> I haven't even seen any for sale anywhere, nevermind whether or not its
> close to reasonable. I realize that if it would have 16 MHz it would
> probably run just fine.
I think you need at least 12 MB RAM to install FreeBSD, but it runs with
8. You can try searching EBay, or getting more RAM for other discarded
PCs :)
Fer
>
> That brings the list of stuff running to
> ppp -d
> ftpd (maybe, I might just use the old burn a cdrom and drive over method
> instead)0
> openssh
> ipnat
> ipfilter
>
> Any comments more than welcome.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Sandro M.
>
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