If it is solely for personal use, then one of the commercial broadband routers (LinkSys/Cisco, etc.) should be sufficient. But IPCop (or other Linux variants) offer much more flexibility should you ever decide you want to host a server. Not to mention you get some active intrusion detection with IPCop.
For specs, your box is WAY overkill, but will still work just fine. I ran IPCop on an old Pentium 166, 2GB drive, and I think it was only 256M of RAM. The firewall ran perfectly fine with Snort activated. I recently changed to a P3-700 (one of the small form factor Dell's VFXWeb had), simply because I wanted the web interface to be a little more snappy when I got around to logging into it. (My router is typically turn it on and forget about it...). In terms of my network traffic, the P166 worked just fine - I would have run out of bandwidth before running out of CPU. The p3-700 runs even faster, so now I'm only seeing about 1% cpu utilization - unless I'm messing with the box. And I run web and mail servers on my network, so I'm filtering my traffic as well. At the moment, I'm seeing about 120 MB of ram usuage on the P3 (which has 128M). So, I think IPCop just claims whatever RAM it can to meet it's needs. If it only has 64M, so be it... So I don't thing the amount of RAM really matters much. Afterall, it's on a dedicated box, and it's not like you need that RAM for something else like video games.. :) Hope this info helps. Shawn Neil Bower wrote: > I'm looking for feedback from people using IPcop to get a comparision of the > differences in usage. > > What hardware specs are you using for IPcop? (ie processor specs and amount > of > memory) > > If you are using additional modules or add-ons to the base install, what are > they? > > How much memory is your system using including swap? > > What is your basic usage for this box? (ie home network, small office, large > office, supporting mail, web sites, number of users, etc.) > > I have an Intel 1.60GHz with 256Mb of memory plus 32Mb of swap. Running a > base > install with snort, I'm using about 200Mb of memory. This box is for personal > use - no web services, no e-mail, etc. > > Any feedback is welcomed. > > Cheers! > > Neil B. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
