If you are going to do filtering, proxying, AND VPN, you should bump the specs some. At a bare minimum, double the ram. But I'd probably lean towards a P4 type box.
I am currently running my IPCop on a P3, with 256 MB. It is not sufficient to do the VPN and the intrusion dectection. I'd hate to see how much it suffers if I add proxy and filtering to the mix... My thoughts. Shawn TekBudda wrote: > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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
