Yeah - seems that the VPN and captive portal bump up memory usage a little.

Okay - I'm in cloud cuckoo land with my numbers.  Here's the mem usage line
in top on my work box.

Mem: 19M Active, 12M Inact, 43M Wired, 30M Buf, 420M Free
That's 76 Mb of ram used, and 30 Mb in disk cache buffers.

I don't run any swap space - that is probably what made me think of 128 Mb
minimum ram.



-----Original Message-----
From: Volker Kuhlmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, 23 June 2006 9:13 a.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Telstra cable...


[pfsense]
> The memeory requirement is real though - you do need 112 Mb absolute 
> minimum.

Where does this requirement come from? perhaps it's dependent on how you
configure it. I'm running it with just 64MB ram with 3 interfaces and a pile
of NAT and routing rules, and it's faster than the cable internet.

I'm not running a web cache on the firewall, I've been thinking that running
that on a workstation on the LAN would be more suitable in my case (faster
computer, oodles of disk and ram).


> I have a P2 266 box here that is available for a demo if someone wants 
> to do it.

Yeah ok, I'll demo a few firewalls. Thanks for that offer of a box, I'm not
sure whether I'll have a spare computer to wreck at the time, or whether Xen
would do it. Someone would need to lend some wireless stuff for the demo
too.

Volker

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