> On 19 May 1997, Chris Brown wrote: > > > > > I have to set up a primary DNS that will also route between two > > 10base2 ethernets with packet filtering. The line to the Internet > > will be a 128 K ISDN line so that bandwidth will be limited there. > > What class of machine is necessary for such a task? I have 3 > > machines laying around, a 386-DX 40, 486-DX 33 and a 486-DX2 66. At > > Either of the 486's should be up to the task. I do, however, recommend 32 > MB of RAM, maybe more.
I use a 386/33 with 8MB RAM for this purpose. I've never noticed a performance problem. I even had my main e-mail and web servers on there for several months. I wasn't doing much packet filtering though... Cheers, - Jim
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