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From: curt@portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: "Calling all very VERY clever people" !!   8-]   NetCafe Questions...
Date: 12 Jan 1996 21:59:08 -0800
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In article <4d6ns1$h7c@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>Not really necessary.  You need at least 5 MB RAM in order to install
>(by now), but once it's installed, i know of Martin Welk who's running
>a FreeBSD router with 3 MB, and i've even got the kernel to boot
>within 1920 KB (though it ain't actually an operable system).
>
>A simple packet-forwarder doesn't require much resources, almost
>everything is done inside the kernel.

Gated on a system of mine that is routing (just two interfaces,
broadcasting RIP on both and listening on one) is currently using
1.3MB of VM.

cjs
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