[ale] 486/8 meg memory as a gateway?

[Ryan Bradford Neily]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Wandered Inn wrote:

Accoring to either the IP/Masqerade HOWTO or the ISP-Hookup-HOWTO a 486/33
with 16 megs of memory can fully saturate a full T-1 worth of bandwidth.
I would like that that would be more than sufficient for a 128k ISDN line.
(Possibly you could even use a 386!!)

> Any of you network gurus tell me if I'm making a mistake to try and use
> a 486 with 8 meg of memory for my ISDN connectivity and gateway?
> 
> Also, anyone tell my why the machine boots and the bios reports 8 meg,
> but free reports 6372??
> 
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