On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 04:35:36PM -0300, John Ackermann wrote: [snip description of firewall with three interfaces] > I have a nice small box with a 486DX4/100 in it, and am wondering if that's > sufficient horsepower for this sort of application, or whether I should be > looking at a Pentium.
A 486DX4/100 is plenty for this application. I use a 486SX/25 to firewall my house from my ADSL connection. It masq's and port forwards just fine. [snip stuff about 100Mbps vs 10Mbps] > Will there be a significant impact > if the servers have to switch to 10MB mode to talk with the firewall (the > internal network is all 10MB, so there's no issue on that side). Well, since your net connection isn't 10Mbps, I don't think it's a problem for you DMZ boxen to be limited to 10Mbps. -- Luca Filipozzi [dpkg] We are the apt. Resistance is futile. You will be packaged.
