From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu May 23 10: 6:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from workhorse.imach.com (barbwire.iMach.com [206.127.77.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF26437B40D for ; Thu, 23 May 2002 10:06:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (forrestc@localhost) by workhorse.imach.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4NH5wa72467; Thu, 23 May 2002 11:05:59 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from forrestc@imach.com) Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 11:05:57 -0600 (MDT) From: "Forrest W. Christian" To: Christian Fredrickson Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020523110454.L72448-100000@workhorse.imach.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 23 May 2002, Christian Fredrickson wrote: > I would like to know what the minimal hardware I would require for the given > situation: > > running FreeBSD as a Firewall, average of about 150 users behind the > Firewall. I have a Pentium 90 with 32Mb of ram that I was considering using. > IPFilter would be the only package I would need to run. Depends. I've done this many with a 486/66 with 8mb ram and a floppy drive running natd/ipfw. What type of bandwidth do you expect to use? - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Innovation Machine Ltd. P.O. Box 5749 http://www.imach.com/ Helena, MT 59604 Home of PacketFlux Technogies and BackupDNS.com (406)-442-6648 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect your personal freedoms - visit http://www.lp.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message