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We plan to implement a firewall / gateway for our server room such that all servers are on a separate network and behind a firewall / gateway. External access to the servers will be only through the firewall / gateway. Some details about the network: * 10 - 15 servers on a variety of OS's networking with TCP/IP (also have some Netware boxes on IPX, but these will not be put behind the firewall) * a switched 100 Mbp/s network * 250-300 clients Network traffic and bandwidth utilisation have not yet been calculated / analyzed.... this is in progress, but preliminary estimates put it to be well within 30-40 Mbp/s during peak utilisation. The present plan is to go with one of the Cisco PIX� family of firewalls, but I'm trying to evaluate the feasibility of just using a linux box instead. The questions: 1. Would implementing the firewall / gateway on a linux box be feasible? 2. What sort of specs. would be required for this linux box? - -- RAM and bandwidth being the two most important criteria, I'm thinking of a Xeon 2 Ghz box with 1 Gb RAM and two 1 Gbp/s Intel EtherExpressPro NIC's. 3. Should I have two firewall / gateway linux boxes (to avoid a single point of failure) - this is a large hospital and anything less than 24x7 is not an option. 4. How well would a linux firewall / gateway stand up to one of the Cisco PIX� family of firewalls? Anyone have any comparisons? 5. Does anyone have a better idea on how this whole thing can be done? If you've come this far and read all this, thank you for taking the time to read this long mail....... :-) Regards, Vinu. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/CBkhfQe5A1YbfuURAkwTAJ907Hq6mUcD2fOyDqDU62kACUJG8wCg0HnG 3JKG0QShSbZM+xZQMqaEYZY= =/njM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
