Hi All, I am starting the process for building an IP-Cop firewall at work as one of the things I do before I depart.
Initially it will likely just do basic firewalling, but I would anticipate down the road it doing the following: * Proxying: To assit in reducing bandwidth usage. I am also looking at proxying e-mail before it hits the exchange box. * Content/Web Filtering: reducing/eliminating spam, virus, etc as well as blcoking sites we shouldn't be going to. * VPN: This is a maybe. people are currently VPN'ing thru our cheap router which passes thru the connection and authetication is done by the server. * Wifi: Conneting a Wifi router to a NIC. I would imagine there may be other things, but thats all I can think of right now. The box that I have elected for this task has the following specs: * CPU: P-III I GB * RAM: 512 currently, but i was thinking of taking of removing one stick and using it somewhere else. * HDD: 30 GB (?) * NIC: Contains one onboard NIC. I wa sthinking of attaching this to the WiFi. If the onboard NIC fails, the WifI isn't a critical item, so if we lost it temporaryily it wouldn't matter >From what I have hear, does it sound like this guy would be up to the task or would I need something beefier? Are there any other considerations for things like plug-ins or anything else I can thing of? Suggestions? Pitfalls? Flames? Smacks in the head? Any and all input is appreciated. TekBudda
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