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From: mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de (Martin Welk)
Subject: Re: "Calling all very VERY clever people" !! 8-] NetCafe Questions...
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Message-ID: <DL7MCw.825@theatre.pandora.sax.de>
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 06:36:31 GMT
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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.
That's it. Okay, I've got a very simple network configuration here
(two Ethernet-based LANs connected via SLIP over a leased modem line)
but this machine is also running the DNS (domain name service) and
there were only two reasons why I had to reboot it since it's up and
running: NFS server for the router was away for two days, machine got
screwed up (after 35 days without reboot) and hardware problems
(network adapter lost contact to the slot it was built in :-) after
about 30 days running.)
I installed FreeBSD-2.0.5-RELEASE on another machine with more RAM
as the install process found out that it won't work with only those
3 megs - and the generic kernel doesn't either with only 3 meg.
I have an own kernel for that machine without all unnecessary
drivers (SCSI, CD-ROM, tape streamers and so on.)
Of course, that machine is unable to build an own kernel or compile
anything - at least it will take almost forever, if there was
enough swap space. But that's not its purpose. It's purpose is
routing, and that's what it does.
Bye,
Martin
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