From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 2 11: 3:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D3BE37B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:03:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brother.aylix.com (aylix.mtwashington.nidhog.net [66.207.142.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B809B43E6A for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:03:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mhs-list@aylix.com) Received: from aylix.com (192.168.1.199) by brother.aylix.com (Worldmail 1.3.167) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; 2 Oct 2002 14:09:03 -0400 Message-ID: <3D9B3507.6000306@aylix.com> Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 14:03:51 -0400 From: "Michael H. Semcheski" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: advise on gateway-setup References: <20021002160429.GC96783@deter.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > >Ok. After this little self promo its time for my questions. >The building I live in has 200+ apartments which in near future will >share an (I hope) powerful internet connection. Now I was put in-charge >of selecting the equipment to preform firewalling and gateway. >What I like it to do is firewalling and some sort of natted intranet >with bandwidth management. My question is. How powerful should the >gateway/firewall be? I am thinking about CPU and RAM and hardware en >general. Also I would be glad to get pointers on where to read for >setting up this..ofcause I will start whit the handbook right about here > > Get a Pentium III with 512m of RAM and Intel ethernet cards. Get SCSI disks. You might look at a dell poweredge server. It probably does not have to be the top of the line, but if you are going to get a real highbandwidth connection to the net, you're probably going to be paying a lot more per month in bandwidth than you will on hardware. The last thing you want is a disk to go down. Realize that you are about to undertake a serious project, and don't skimp on the initial hardware. Its a drop in the bucket in the long term (even if it doesn't seem that way now.) Rackmount is good, because physical space can be pretty expensive. Don't get the cheapest thing you can find, because you really want to put off upgrading it as long as possible. (even if the upgrade is to replace a burned out fan) Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message