Shawn wrote: > 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...
I appreciate the advice, however, for me to go to a P4 box I would be looking at purchasing more equipment. I am trying to utilize any old boxes I have and this one seemed like a good one. The others are all about the same genre. Now I can up the RAM to 512 but CPU... not so much. As far as VPN access goes it is very infrequent and usually one person at a time...maybe 2. Question is, would I still need the VPN being handled on IPCop if the sessions are already handled by the WIndows Server? With the new 5 wireless connection coming in, the proxying may not be as necessary, but I was thinking of it for things like updates and because we support a web app, if we could dish the static elements from the proxy and save a little pipe...so much the better. I was thinking of doing some bandwisth shaping as well....maybe that would be a better plan than the proxying. _______________________________________________ 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
