On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:32:28PM +0330, Bahman M. wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to setup a small home network therefore I plan to buy an old > (cheap) PC to act as the gateway. The hardware specification is > CPU: Pentium II at 433MHz > RAM: 128MB > HDD: IDE 4GB > LAN Card: D-Link 538FE
Note: You need two LAN cards: One for the outside connection and one to your internal network. (You probably already know that, but since you referred to 'LAN Card' in the singular I thought I should mention it anyway.) > > Internet connection is a slow one below 512Kbps and there is only one > other node than the gateway in the network. > > Is the configuration enough? More than enough. I use a Pentium I @ 133MHz w/ 64MB RAM as a gateway with a faster Internet connection (8Mbps down / 1Mbps up) and it has no problem keeping up. Earlier I had only 512 Kbps connection, and at that time used a 386sx @ 33MHZ w/ 8MB RAM as gateway. It had no problem handling that speed. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
