From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 17 7:11:16 2003 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 E8FD637B401 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 07:11:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from perimeter.co.za (obelix.perimeter.co.za [209.212.102.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E5F043F43 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 07:11:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsd@perimeter.co.za) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 9999) by perimeter.co.za with local; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 17:11:03 +0200 References: <20030117143601.GA2181@darkpossum> In-Reply-To: <20030117143601.GA2181@darkpossum> From: bsd@perimeter.co.za To: Redmond Militante Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: need help in setting up a demilitarized zone Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 17:11:03 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: 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 Redmond Militante writes: > hi all > > this gateway box is an dell optiplex gx150 pIII 930 mhz > with 128 mb of ram, 2 nics > > i would like this gateway box to protect our webserver, > our mysql server, and possibly another webserver. > our webserver is a dual xeon dell poweredge 1650 with 2 gig of ram, > it gets sometimes more than 100000 hits a day, > and is hooked up to a t100 line. > > will my little optiplex gateway box be able to keep up > with a webserver that's this busy? A PIII 930 can handle a LOT of traffic! All it is doing is shuffling packets - it should be ample for your needs! And it has plenty RAM too. > i know i at least have to replace the 3com 3c905b card on it, > as i'm pretty sure that that type of nic can't even handle a > t100 connection. For a DMZ you need 3 NICs. You have an Intel NIC on-board(?), so why not put 2 more new intel NICS in free PCI slots, and then you will be set. > but - is the computer itself fast enough? Plenty IMHO. Regards, Patrick O'Reilly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message