Subject: Re: NAT and general network problems
To: None <tech-net@NetBSD.org>
From: Ivo Vachkov <ivo@unilans.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/06/2003 00:32:26
Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 07:13:13PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
>>Don't know what to say, but 32M is pretty small these days. Even my 133MHz
>>laptop circa 1997 has 64, and my P90 circa 1993 has 96...
> 
> Just for router/NAT, 32MB should be more than enouth.
> 

My ex router was 486DX/100MHz, 8MB RAM with 4 ethernet cards. It served 
well for me as:
- router - routing packets from/to ISPs
- DNS server (~10 zones)
- WEB server
- little FTP server
- mail server
- etc (telnet, finger, rwhod ...)

My current router is P100, 16MB RAM with 4 ethernet cards. Working as:
- router - two upstreams
- Firewall
- DNS server (15 zones)
- WEB server
- FTP server
- mail server with blocklists
- webmail (10 accounts)
- IPv6 router
- etc (telnet, finger, snmp, MRTG stats ...)

So I think if you want you can still use an old PC to run your network.

	Bye, Ivo Vachkov
	Unilans Networking