On Jan 2, 2008 4:57 PM, Ingo Schwarze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Matheus, > > Nenhum_de_Nos wrote on Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 01:42:01PM -0300: > > > my OBSD routers are usually old PII boxes > > and doing this kind of upgrade on them is not trivial. > > Saying "this kind of upgrade", you refer to the official upgrade > process, i presume? > > The official upgrade process is completely trivial on any imaginable > kind of i386 Pentium II box, believe me. A Pentium II may seem old > to you, but for running a standard router, it is more than enough, > including the handling of the official upgrade process, of course. > The dmesg of my own three-leg (internal/dmz/Internet) statefully > filtering and NATing main router (saturating a 100 Mbit/s uplink, > about 200 user accounts in the internel network, about 50 users > regularly accessing us from the Internet, plus multiple web sites > and mailing list hosting) is included below. > > Ya, i do have a couple of 600-900 MHz boxen on the shelf that > people have been throwing away recently, so i could upgrade for > free, but there's simply no need to hurry... > > About five years ago, i had to use an old 486-SX25, 24 MB RAM, > Harddisk 160 MB (yes, zero dot one six Gigabytes) for the same > task. With 16 MB of RAM, i saw occasional shortages of memory - > although the users did not even notice that - but with 24 MB, > even that crappy thing saturated our 100 Mbit/s uplink just fine. > I just checked my notes, it was installed on May 13, 2001 with > OpenBSD 2.8, upgraded to OpenBSD 2.9 on June 3, upgraded > to OpenBSD 3.1 on June 22, 2002, upgraded to OpenBSD 3.2 on > Jan 17, 2003. No, for those upgrades with 160 MB of total disk > space, i could not use the official upgrade process, > go figure... :-) > > But honestly, with any kind of Pentium II, what's your problem? > > All the best for the New Year, > Ingo > > --
first of all I'd like to thank everyone that responded me in so short time. my problem is not running it, ingo. I do love my PII and they do just fine to keep my home lan security :) the problem for me is to take a cdrom, burn the iso, and have to do it not from a remote ssh window ;) but as many stated that it works, just have to be carefull about the steps :) I'll install a fresh 4.1 just to practice and walk through this process. thank you all for your attention :) I'm kinda new in OpenBSD, a user for about one year, but I already liked it :) I learned too much in this time :) thanks, matheus -- We will call you cygnus, The God of balance you shall be
