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ram requirements for NAT router

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sciencewhiz

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The person who would normally do this is out of the country for a few weeks, so he asked me to set up a router. The main requirment is to use Redhat 9, because that is what everything else uses. We have several P166/200 machines that aren't used for anything, that I can choose from.

Now, obviously, I don't need a gui or anything, so is 32mb of ram enough? There will be between 8 and 15 machines behind this router, but not more then one will be doing a big download from the outside at a time (does that even matter?)

Also, I've never set up NAT before (and I'll definetly STFW before starting). He told me that it was one line in iptables, does that sound right?
 
You might want to look at something like Freesco, or some other small platform linux OSes, which do routing and routing alone, will save the bloat.

These can run on like 486 with 4mb ram! 🙂


Confused
 
That's what I would prefer, but I'm leaving in less then a month, so I need to do what he wants (especially since we'll hardly overlap, so I wouldn't have time to explain what I did), and he wants redhat 9.

We have several 486's if that was an option 😉
 
Erm, well then...i would guess that as you're not running a GUI, then 32mb should be enough...but don't quote me on that 🙂


Garry
 
I use a p133 with 48(?)mB of ram for my 768/128kb DSL. It runs pretty well. I'd go with 64mB if you can, but 32 should be able to handle it, as long as it isn't a HUGE link.

EDIT: This is assuming, of course, that RedHat doesn't require more than 32mB.
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I use a p133 with 48(?)mB of ram for my 768/128kb DSL. It runs pretty well. I'd go with 64mB if you can, but 32 should be able to handle it, as long as it isn't a HUGE link.

EDIT: This is assuming, of course, that RedHat doesn't require more than 32mB.
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ditto for me. That's about what I use.

As always more ram is better but 32 meg is enough. The thing to be worried about is the installation, but that shouldn't be a problem.

Try not to install X windows if you can help it. Avoid anything associated with the word desktop.

If it does install X, then disable it by editing the init script folders. Also do the same thing for all the other services you don't need.

Try to uninstall everything you don't need.





 
It's a 5mbps connection(although I've downloaded from kernel.org at 700K/sec before, explain that one)

Besides the adv-router howto, anyone have some good reading material?
 
5mbps is the "guaranteed" throughput you can get.

What do you want to read about? There's the NAG for something more general than the specific howtos...
 
Originally posted by: mboy
Go and check out something like the new smoothwall.
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That's the best thing to do. Use that and if your realy interested then discect the setup and learn how to do it from the experts.

Plus it will take much less time to set up and get better results.
 
I tried a clarkconnect install with 32 MB of ram, and it was pretty pokey. I read on the site that they recommend 64 mb minimum for it.
32 MB is plenty for any of the BSD's, they can be trimmed way down to minimums for that duty.
 
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