From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 19 6:21: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EB3710E9F for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 06:20:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA00431; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 15:20:37 +0100 (MET) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA28745; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 15:20:36 +0100 (MET) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA08991; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 15:20:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar) Message-ID: <19990219152035.C8955@sr.se> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 15:20:35 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt To: Ladislav Kostal Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Firewall Reply-To: flygt@sr.se References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Ladislav Kostal on Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 11:23:58AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 11:23:58AM +0100, Ladislav Kostal wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to build firewall for our faculty and I would like to know what are > the requirements for such computer. > Faster processor or more memory or fast disks ? The only thing I know, comparing to what we've got at work, is that you need a lot of disk space and they should be fast disks! And I guess you need a lot of memory on the machine too. Look at http://cache.is.co.za/squid/ This is what I read at the FAQ: In late 1998, if you are buying a new machine for a cache, I would recommend the following configuration: 300 MHz Pentium II CPU 512 MB RAM Five 9 GB UW-SCSI disks Your system disk, and logfile disk can probably be IDE without losing any cache performance. -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message