I'll be sure to post my results as soon as I get the Beast working, It'll
be my first attempt with OpenBSD So i'm sure you'll all be hearing from me
at least a few Times before then :)

The Firewall rules won't be too complicated, you're right about that. and
If I cant get my hards on another 64 MB For cheap then I'll put it in, but
EDO Ram isn't easy to come by these Days, and I'm not willing to sink a
significant amount of money into this machine, its mostly just for a
learning experience.

when you say Low Volume Traffic do you mean the Samba Stuff and the Mail
stuff? or will doing alot of Downloading from the Windows Machines affect
the performance? because I Regularly Download ALOT of junk. I was under
the impression that the NAT and Firewall would be a breeze regardless of
the number of Other computers, and its the Samba and other things that
will possibly cause a slowdown.

BTW I apologize in advance if any of my messages appear mangled, I'm doing
this from work and they force us to use Lotus Notes. (ICK!)

Andre

>Having played about with some 166MHz Dell's recently, I think you
>could do that, although a little sluggishly. If you had 128M ram you'd
>be in better shape. I am making the assumption that you ruleset for
>your firewall isn't really complex. I believe it was Henning Brauer
>who has talked about firewalls in the past and the speed of them; if
>youu are interested look in the misc archives.
>
>If this is all low volume traffic I think you could get away with it. I'd
>try for 128M ram for starters though. In general OpenBSD does a
>really good job in a small memory footprint, but I wouldn't try to starve
>it.
>
>After you do this, you should post your results. Hearing about real
>world applications of OpenBSD on cheap/older hardware is a good
>thing.

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