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On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Wayne Pascoe wrote:

> Pentium III 667 Mhz with 512MB RAM
> 2 x Intel EtherExpress 100Mb cards
....
> Would either of these machines be able to meet my firewall requirements


Why not just try it?
It should be fairly simple to move from one machine to the other if need
be.

If the only thing that the box will be doing is firewall I would think the
667Mhz machine should be fine.