Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:44:44 -0700 From: "Scott Worthington" <SWorthington@hsag.com> To: <evablunted@earthling.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Proxy/Firewall hardware recommendations Message-ID: <s7709e8b.009@internal.hsag.com>
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No need for a PII. Try a 486 with 32MB RAM. One thing to note when using an old machine--make sure it is Y2K compliant else you may have a problem at year end. No need to use a PII or 64MB of RAM--unless you turn on Caching for Apache if you plan to proxy HTTP. Qmail for SMTP delivery can run on the machine as well. This gives your users: HTTP web access, SMTP delivery to an internal e-mail system. I believe TIS toolkit has a telnet proxy in it. You don't need too much hard drive space except for the HTTP logs for analysis (to find out where your users are going). Analog and Rmagic are excellent tools for creating reports for management. Finally, the MRTG gives you graphic reports on throughput for your CISCO router. What else would you need? Anyone? >>> Langa Kentane <evablunted@earthling.net> 1999-06-23 12:58:13 AM >>> Hi all. I am planning to put up a FreeBSD/Linux machine as a proxy/firewall. The machine to do Network Address Translation. There will be 20 machines sitting behind the proxy/firewall At the moment I have a PII Celeron with 64 meg ram and a 4 gig ide hdd. This machine is directly connected to a Cisco 1601 router connecting to a 256k diginet line. Is this hardware sufficient to support this system? The other thing I wanted to ask you guys is if I put up a mail server on the same machine. Say for instance sending at the most 200 messages a day and receiving about another 300 and setting up apache getting 10 hits for the first 2 months and thereafter about a 100 at the most on a daily basis. Would this be too much for the machine to handle? We are still discussing if the mail gonna be web based on the system. I guess that should change things a bit coz we will be running a virtual server for the mail. What do you guys think would be the best hardware for this type of system? And if I should require to machines, what is the best way to balance the load between them, ie which apps/daemons should run on which machines? Thanks in advance Langa Kentane Networking Specialist Intekom PTY/LTD [ http://www.intekom.com ] Tel: +2721 488 9400 Cell +27829271215 [ http://members.xoom.com/evablunted ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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