From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 29 10:02:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65FC416A4BF for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:02:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out003.verizon.net (out003pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65CD343FE5 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:02:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.237.14.199]) by out003.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030829170236.RIVB29617.out003.verizon.net@mac.com>; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:02:36 -0500 Message-ID: <3F4F8727.30900@mac.com> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:02:31 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Redmond Militante References: <20030829141112.GB2456@darkpossum> In-Reply-To: <20030829141112.GB2456@darkpossum> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out003.verizon.net from [68.237.14.199] at Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:02:35 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipfilter/natd for windows domain controllers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:02:39 -0000 Redmond Militante wrote: [ ... ] > my question is - do i need to upgrade my hardware? No. You can filter T1 or 10Mbs ethernet level bandwidth with a Pentium-grade box with a fraction of the RAM your system has. The only real hardware concern is to make sure you've got high-quality NICs in the box. -- -Chuck