Rob Stockley said: > 486DX2 80 - Firewall/gateway running IPCop > > All connected through an ethernet switch. My gf will > connect her windows based laptop to the switch for > Internet and printing. Is the 486 > sufficient to cope with IPCop? Robert, A 486 will be just fine for IPCop for a basic routing setup (NAT, DHCP, DNS relay, port forwarding, logging etc) but if you want to start using anything a bit more resource intensive on it such as Squid, Snort, Dansguardian etc, you'll find it a bit slow or maybe unuseable. The web interface may be a bit sluggish to respond when you're doing setup changes etc, but that shouldn't be often once initially setup - except for maybe viewing logs. You could transfer log files to a different box to view them. Have a hunt around the IPCop user lists and on the support websites to see what type of hardware people are using, and what sort of issues they are having. The V1.3 uses IPTables which I assume hogs a bit more resources than the IPChains of <=V1.2 Cheers H ------------------------------------------------------------------- To remove yourself from this list, email nzlug-request@linux.net.nz with "unsubscribe" in the body of the message.
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