From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 4 21:12:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sunny.pacific.net.sg (sunny.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECB6037B401 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 21:12:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nchee_hoong@pacific.net.sg) Received: from pop1.pacific.net.sg (pop1.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.85]) by sunny.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id f653ISr07338 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 11:18:28 +0800 (SGT) Received: from pacific.net.sg ([203.208.143.50]) by pop1.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id MAA18184 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 12:12:18 +0800 (SGT) Message-ID: <3B43EA7C.62F8558E@pacific.net.sg> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 12:18:04 +0800 From: Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: zh-TW,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Firewall concern Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi ; I have setup FBSD as a firewall to protect our company network to against the security and this FBSD is running on normal PC Pentum III . We have 4Mbps bandwidth connected ISP to access the internet. This link is always fully utilise. Before connect the FBSD to the our company network backbone , my concern are as following ..... (1) Is it adviseable to install FBSD into normal pentium III PC to as a firewall ? (2) What is minimum memory requred to run firewall ? (3) Does FBSD reliable to run firewall and gateway router to mange high congestion traffics of internet access ? Please advise To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message