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
