I have a Gateway 2000, model E-3110. It has a 266mHz processor with 128
meg of memory and 6 gig of disk space. The disk is split into 1 gig for /
and /var and 5 gig for /usr. The / is 23% full and /usr is 14% full. We
am going to use this as a firewall here at Simpson. The machine is
running OpenLinux 2.3 with the 2.2.14 kernel. Testing it everything works
fine.
It is mainly for students and not for staff and faculty machines. Students
are given a 10.x.x.x address, from a dhcp server, and the firewall masq's
that for the Internet. They will be using web services, ftp services, Real
Audio, email and chat mainly. We don't allow ICQ. There are 300-400
students that could possibly use it but most likely not all will be hitting
it at a one time. My boss is concerned whether or not this is enough
machine for this application or if it will be a bottleneck. Any thoughts?
Paul Crittenden
Computer System Manager
Simpson College
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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