Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 11:07:50 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewall hardware spec Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107161103260.61534-100000@ren.sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <86ofqli75x.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com>
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Wayne Pascoe wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > Hi there, > > I've just inherited a strange machine. It was the company Linux > firewall. I am about to turn it into the company FreeBSD firewall, but > I need some opinions on the hardware spec's suitability: > > The hardware is a Pentium 166 on a VERY strange board. There are 7 pci > slots, 5 ISA slots, and 2 what look like VLBus slots. > > The link that is plugging into it is a 2Mb link. > > Will this hardware be suitable as a FreeBSD firewall running ipf ? A P-166 should be able to handle that easily for your 2MB connection, unless the ruleset is unusually complex (many hundreds of rules), or if the machine is also acting as a gateway with a very large routing table. In either case, you may want to increase the amount of physical RAM to reduce/eliminate paging. (486s make excellent firewall/gateway machines for most 100Mbps LANs). > Thanks in advance -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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