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List:       suse-linux-e
Subject:    Re: [SLE] 486 fast enough?
From:       Gerhard den Hollander <gerhard () fugro-jason ! com>
Date:       2004-05-05 7:33:16
Message-ID: 20040505073316.GP27984 () hyperion ! jason ! nl
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* Hans du Plooy <hansdp@newingtoncs.co.za> (Sat, May 01, 2004 at 02:38:02PM +0200)
> Hi all,

> I have a 486 DX2-66 with 16mb RAM that I'd like to use as a firewall for 
> dial-up at home.  Network card is a 10-base ISA card, it has a vesa-localbus 
> IDE controller and 1gb Maxtor disc.  The disc was from a P-I of which the 
> mobo went bad.  The firewall was already setup with forwarding and squid 
> proxy on the disc.

I used to have a 386 w/ 8m of ram as a firewall for an entire office (20+
users over a dual ISDN line) It ran a Suse 6.4 (? I think) and whatever the
2.0 version of iptables/iptraf was , including full masquerading, automatic
dial up and everything.

> I tried it once but the result was disappointing.  I could not get anymore 
> than about 1kbps download speed, and response was really slow.  Even with the 
> proxy and all other unnecessary services disabled, matters didn't improve.  I 
> tried both SuSE 6.3 and the latest IP-COP (www.ipcop.org) with all the 
> patches loaded.

I wopuld very strongly recommend to *NOT* run squid on the box.

Only use it as a firewall and nothing else (well, OK, you might run DNS or
similar on it) 

> Is a machine like this just too slow?  Or is the RAM insufficient? It only 
> serves two clients on normal analog dialup.

I suspect squid.

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