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    • maekeeM
      maekee
      last edited by

      Hello,
      I would like to Install a vm with ONLY the DHCP relay service (no fw, no dhcp server etc)
      Is that possible? Its the only service we need because our switch has a bug which makes it more complex and we have a DHCP server in the network. Just want a slim VM that takes the minimum performance needed

      /M

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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        You can certainly configure it that way if you want. You can disable the firewall, DHCP, DNS, and other services you don't need.

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        • maekeeM
          maekee
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          Nice, what is the minimum hardware requirements for that implementation?

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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            As that is not a typical deployment, there isn't any way to know that without trying. Probably could be done with minimal RAM (512MB or probably less, but I wouldn't go lower than 256+swap), no reason to skimp on disk space, standard there is ~20GB for a VM. Again, may by able to get by with less but not much reason to these days. Single CPU core would do fine.

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