* Falk Brockerhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-09 17:24]: > Henning Brauer wrote: >> well, that has been detailed to this list a hundred times... >> not much tuning required. > > Oh, sorry, I should have had a look at the mailing list archive. I'm not > reading the list all the time. Thank you for your hint! > >> GENERIC kernel, no SMP (hurts in that case), right amount of RAM (a gig is >> plenty), good NICs (usually server-grade ems in my case) > > Hm, without a SMP enabled kernel the system wouldn't take any advantage of > the dual cpu board, right? So a single CPU system would really be the > better choice for firewalling services?
unless you run heavy proxies or other stuff in userland, yes (that might change in future tho) -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
