Re: system requirements
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 01:56:26PM -0600, D'jinnie wrote:
> [please Cc: me with your replies]
> Well, I've finally convinced my boss to take Linux seriously and get a
> firewall (since the University I attend and work for, that shall remain
> nameless, does not have one). She asked me a question that rather floored
> me - if we get an older PC to just be a dedicated firewall machine, what
> are the min. system requirements for it not to slow anything down? I
> wasn't sure how to answer that, although I think pretty much anything
> above a 486 with an acceptable amount of RAM will do...this will be for a
> department, several NT servers, 2 Solaris boxes, other assorted stuff. Any
> help, pointers, URLs, etc would be appreciated!
What bandwidth do you have on the external connection?
I've been successfully using a 486/16M ram with three 10Mbps
ethernet cards to do routing and firewalling for a large
university campus (about 100 directly connected machines in a
1000 machines network).
adc
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