DecAlpha Personal Workstation prefers to run Digital Unix or Compaq Tru 64
UNIX. Unless one is really up on hacking up the Linux kernel the
Digital Alpha Personal Workstation is bit besky during the Linux install.
BSDI 4.0 installs ok, some fiddling with the network drivers have to be
done, but other than that it will run..
/m
Bennett Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
01/24/00 02:05 PM
To: Paul Crittenden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Firewall size (NEWBIE)
2000-01-24-09:51:59 Paul Crittenden:
> FYI, we have a T1 connection.
Cool:-). That makes it easy.
Any firewall will be fine to service a T1. If someone would write
software for it, I betcha you could do a decent packet filtering
firewall that would service a T1 just fine running on a Palm Pilot.
A T1 is slow enough to drown any possible slowness from the
firewall. I happily remember working at a company that got terrific
service out of a Gauntlet, running BSDI on a P-90; the T1 was the
bottleneck.
> I have a DecAlpha Personal Workstation, 250mHz, 128Meg of ram,
> [...]
Way plenty of hardware. There are number of OSes you could run; any
of them could do a fine job. Many of the OSes support multiple
alternatives for doing the firewalling; again, any would be fine.
If I owned this problem, I'd probably use Linux, just because I like
it so much. But any of the BSDs should also be fine, as well as the
commercial OS offerings.
Go with whatever OS you like the best. Packet filtering should be
available for just about all of 'em. There are plenty of open source
proxies available, too. From that collection of parts you should be
able to assemble a nice-performing solution for whatever policy
details you like.
Streaming protocols can demand more of a firewall, but only if the
network link allows them to. If you have multiple T3s or an OC48 or
something, then you'd need to worry more about details of the
firewall. But for a T1, FW performance can be ignored.
-Bennett
(See attached file: C.DTF)
C.DTF
