Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:58:13 +0200 From: Langa Kentane <evablunted@earthling.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Proxy/Firewall hardware recommendations Message-ID: <4.2.0.56.19990623094503.00975d40@pop3.intekom.com>
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Hi all. I am planning to put up a FreeBSD/Linux machine as a proxy/firewall. The machine to do Network Address Translation. There will be 20 machines sitting behind the proxy/firewall At the moment I have a PII Celeron with 64 meg ram and a 4 gig ide hdd. This machine is directly connected to a Cisco 1601 router connecting to a 256k diginet line. Is this hardware sufficient to support this system? The other thing I wanted to ask you guys is if I put up a mail server on the same machine. Say for instance sending at the most 200 messages a day and receiving about another 300 and setting up apache getting 10 hits for the first 2 months and thereafter about a 100 at the most on a daily basis. Would this be too much for the machine to handle? We are still discussing if the mail gonna be web based on the system. I guess that should change things a bit coz we will be running a virtual server for the mail. What do you guys think would be the best hardware for this type of system? And if I should require to machines, what is the best way to balance the load between them, ie which apps/daemons should run on which machines? Thanks in advance Langa Kentane Networking Specialist Intekom PTY/LTD [ http://www.intekom.com ] Tel: +2721 488 9400 Cell +27829271215 [ http://members.xoom.com/evablunted ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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