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From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chris Hill
Sent: 27 May 2011 02:16
To: Gary Gatten; Chuck Swiger
Cc: 'questi...@freebsd.org'
Subject: Re: RAM needed for DHCP + router?
On Thu, 26 May 2011, Gary
--As of May 26, 2011 7:46:10 PM -0400, Chris Hill is alleged to have said:
I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my company.
My question is, how do I estimate the amount of RAM the machine will need?
This box will be running isc-dhcpd, doing NAT either via natd or pf, and
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote:
I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my company. My
question is, how do I estimate the amount of RAM the machine will need?
FWIW, I can tell you some experiences that I've had.
Example #1:
At one
On Fri, 27 May 2011, Jaime Kikpole wrote:
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote:
I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my company. My
question is, how do I estimate the amount of RAM the machine will need?
FWIW, I can tell you some
On May 26, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Chris Hill wrote:
I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my company. My
question is, how do I estimate the amount of RAM the machine will need?
How many DHCP leases and NAT clients?
ISC's DHCPd typically runs a few tens of MB unless you have
Your biggest consumers would be FBSD itself and the routing tables. I *think*
full internet routing tables are still less than 512MB, (google to check), so
unless you have more routes than that - 512MB may work, 1GB most likely will.
Too many unknowns, like; is this ipv4 only or 6 and 4
On Thu, 26 May 2011, Gary Gatten wrote:
Your biggest consumers would be FBSD itself and the routing tables. I
*think* full internet routing tables are still less than 512MB, (google
to check), so unless you have more routes than that - 512MB may work,
1GB most likely will. Too many unknowns,
