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Date:      Thu, 23 May 2002 11:05:57 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com>
To:        Christian Fredrickson <fredrick@eng.utah.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Question
Message-ID:  <20020523110454.L72448-100000@workhorse.imach.com>
In-Reply-To: <ILEOIIPMNJANKMENJKMKOEFCCCAA.fredrick@eng.utah.edu>

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On Thu, 23 May 2002, Christian Fredrickson wrote:

> I would like to know what the minimal hardware I would require for the given
> situation:
>
> running FreeBSD as a Firewall, average of about 150 users behind the
> Firewall. I have a Pentium 90 with 32Mb of ram that I was considering using.
> IPFilter would be the only package I would need to run.

Depends.  I've done this many with a 486/66 with 8mb ram and a floppy
drive running natd/ipfw.

What type of bandwidth do you expect to use?

- Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE
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