From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 23 1:36: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 962E514A12 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 01:36:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id JAA13147; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:32:40 +0200 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id KAA14271; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:30:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA22009; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:09:35 +0200 (MEST) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id KAA08525; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:15:18 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <377098E8.21306716@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:20:56 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot Reply-To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr Organization: Alcatel CIT Nanterre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Langa Kentane Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Proxy/Firewall hardware recommendations References: <4.2.0.56.19990623094503.00975d40@pop3.intekom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, If the data trafic is only 256 kbps, anything bigger than an old 486 is a bit overkill (there was a post by someone routing 2 Megs on a 386-Sx16). This way, you can keep distinct machines for your firewall/nat and your server (this is a must if you want to secure your server) TfH Langa Kentane wrote: > > 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? [SNIP] > > 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 -- Thierry Herbelot (+33) 1 46 52 47 23 http://perso.cybercable.fr/herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message