On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 12:38:05AM -0400, ken bonner wrote:
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-> Hello all.
-> I have read a couple of messages here on IP masq, and was kind of hoping that
-> it would get a bit deeper, but no luck!
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-> I am thinking about setting up an old 486,or one of my 'trash' pentiums with
-> ipmasq, or some other method to let the home network connect to the internet,
-> and was wondering about a few things. So if you can help Thanks!
->
-> 1, what would be the minimum system that would work?
-> I have an old compaq deskpro 486-66 32 megs,(no hard drive right now),
-> and a couple of pentiums that are pretty much just laying around for now.
I have a 486 DX2/66, 16 MB physical, 32 MB cache, which runs just fine.
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-> 2, how much ram,and disk space would be needed? is more better?
Probably not. You should not run any services other than the firewall on
your firewall, and that reduces your requirements. The more computers
behind the firewall, the more resources you will want on the firewall.
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-> 3, what would the performance hit be compared to a direct connection? Here in
-> the big city of Pierson mi. (pop 207) the only ISP is a bit overloaded from
-> all the outlaying towns,and it's the king of slow,even at 2am. so any
-> performance hit is a big hit.
What do you mean, direct connection? T1? I haven't tried a 486 on the end
of a T1, but suspect it might get a tad slow from time to time. It does
just fine and dandy on a 56K dialup connection, though.
In fact the masqerading box speed things up on a dialup line. I have a
caching only DNS server on the firewall, and it greatly speeds everything
up by reducing DNS calls across the dialup link.
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