Michael Meskes wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 04:35:36PM -0300, John Ackermann wrote: > > 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. > > For 10Mb it should be okay. They usually say to fill a 100Mb net you need at > least a Pentium 200 with an PCI card. So you should be able to run your > system with 1/10th of the speed. > > Anyway, will you use the netlink device? This is very slow, so might become > a problem.
Actually you only need the PCI. I've both used a 486DX2-66 MB with PCI and a P-100 PCI MB for my firewall. The IPCHAINS rules list is long, about 100 entries. Each worked fine. I have 10/100 PCI NICs on each link. It's a 3 NIC system with a DMZ for my web/DNS server. My DMZ only talks at 10Mbps due to there only being a 10Mb HUB on it. When setting up my firewall/router box I evicted the PCI graphics card for an ISA one. I wanted the slot for the NIC. The disk on the box is a lowly 100Mbyte IDE salvaged from a system I helped upgrade. I have a stack of them laying around to use as replacements. I even went as far as loading duplicates of my firewall setup on a couple of them to serve as spares incase of failure. As for the web server box, it got the better and larger hard disks, but it's also a slow box. It all depends on how much dynamic content you wish to dish out. My pages are mostly static. I can get by with a wimpy system. -- | Bryan Andersen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://softail.visi.com | | Buzzwords are like annoying little flies that deserve to be swatted. | | -Bryan Andersen |
