Thanks everyone for your input. Hopefully my cousin will take some interest in the box and he'll start messing with it until it breaks, so I can start learning again. My machine hasn't "broken" in months, its nearly boring now ;)
>-----Original Message----- >From: Fernando Gleiser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: October 1, 2002 9:53 PM >To: Liquid >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation > >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. >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
