Minimum Specs for Smoothwall

Damien Elmes resolve at repose.cx
Sun Dec 2 01:13:44 EST 2001


"Karun Dambiec" <karun at dambiec.com> writes:

> If its dedicated to only a single task, such as routing/nat, it won't
> require a large amount of ram. Most routers e.g Cisco 2500's etc, only have
> 8mb of ram or less. The cisco base adsl routers have a 486 cpu and 2mb of
> ram

... and the operating system in firmware. 

not really a decent comparison there :-) but your gist was right - you
don't need *that* much ram to do routing/nat.

cheers!

-- 
Damien Elmes
resolve at repose.cx




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