On 11/2/06, Paolo Supino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm in the process of configuring a Dell PowerEdge 860 as firewall and I debating what kind of CPU to get for the firewall for an office of about 50 people, 20MB metro ethernet, and 15 lightly used Internet servers: FTP, web, DNS, email, NTP, etc ... In addition for the computer being a firewall it will also act as a NIDS and IPSEC peer (something like 10 concurrent tunnels).
So the only processes running on-box would be pf, IPSEC, and NIDS? What sort of NIDS? The Celeron @2.8Ghz should be sufficient, I do not recall if the PE860 with Celeron can be upgraded to Xeon later. Kevin
