On Monday 23 December 2002 6:33 am, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 08:14:44AM +0100, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > >CPU: VIA C3 Samuel 2 (800.03-MHz 686-class CPU) > > Origin = "CentaurHauls" Id = 0x678 Stepping = 8 > > Features=0x803035<FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,MTRR,PGE,MMX> > >real memory = 266272768 (260032K bytes) > > ... > > >So for summary: It is quite perfect for be the FreeBSD router that manage > >my adsl line and till now I can't find anything that not work as expected > >(even if I think the cpu could be more fast :-) > > What do people expect their firewall/router to be doing? > > I'm using an old 486DX-50 with 20MB of RAM and a pair of ISA-bus > SMC8013 cards to manage my cable connection using ipfilter and ipnat. > It's definitely not a speed daemon but I managed to download the > 5.0-RC ISO's at just over 440KBps - though I suspect this was close > to saturating the CPU based on previous experiments.
I too use 486's of various CPU speeds w/FreeBSD for all my network devices at home. I have three firewalls & two IDS, none of which are better than 486DX-75 (except one IDS is a Pentium overdrive in a 486DX-33Mhz board) and all perform quite well. I haven't actually done any perfromance measuring of a formal nature, but the casual vmstat has never shown me a CPU less than 80% idle. Gotta love old hardware.... :) -- Eric I. Arnoth http://mywebpages.comcast.net/earnoth CISSP (http://www.isc2.org) http://watch-tower.sourceforge.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.honeypotdiary.org ¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°*°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°*°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°*°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°*°º¤ø,¸¸,ø Tolkien Authentication - one root to rule them all.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
