Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 20:23:34 -0400 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net> To: <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Firewall hardware spec Message-ID: <013001c10e56$b73d2aa0$0e00000a@tomcat> In-Reply-To: <86ofqli75x.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Wayne Pascoe > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 4:56 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Firewall hardware spec > > 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 ? > > Thanks in advance Wayne, What you've got there sounds like an older HP or Unisys/ALR type motherboard. These generally went into servers, etc. (I have one of similar description on my ALR 6X6) and yes, they make wonderful machines. For a 2MB link, I'd want to have 64-128 Megs of RAM onboard, probably do some caching on a SCSI drive and use PCI 10/100 NICs. From personal experience, FreeBSD supports ISA, EISA, VLB and PCI. So, there shouldn't be any problems involved with using that motherboard/system under FreeBSD for anything you wanted to use it as. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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