[wailug] firewall/router specs

[Nic Bellamy]

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 15:37, Phil Workman wrote:
> Hi all
> can someone help me what are the minimun specs needed for firewall 
> network router for jetstream - possibly email.
> would a p100 or p133 be up to the job 
> probably run debian with nothing else on it no X. etc

Mine was a p133/64M until recently, but is now a K6/400/128M after I
decided I wanted to put a bunch of other crap on it as well (a
user-mode-linux instance and a couple of megabit of IPSEC traffic). For
the most part, memory is more important than CPU power.

Full rate DSL or Jetstart?

It'll also depend on the type of modem you get - if the one you get has
the Linux box doing the PPP side of things (which is way more flexible),
you'll be fine for jetstart but may want something faster for jetstream.
I found the Linux box doing PPP + firewalling was CPU-bound at around
the 200K/sec mark, and couldn't do any faster.

More grunt will also be needed if you're wanting an IMAP server instead
of just POP3.

Cheers,
	Nic.

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