Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 21:40:10 EDT From: Lehquin@aol.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: firewall, how much horsepower? Message-ID: <9f.5b1fdb1.265b3b7a@aol.com>
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Hi: I'm thinking about a network connection to the internet, either ISDN or DSL router. If I want to setup a firewall using FreeBSD, how much horsepower does the box need? I'm thinking that it won't need much power to just pass IP packets back and forth. It will need just need 2 ethernet cards right? Would a 486 66 w/ pentium upgrade chip and 64Meg Ram be enough? Regardless of the horsepower, what about other services. Can I run sendmail, and DNS on the same box that's the firewall. How do I makesure that the "Server Services" are protected behind the firewall eventhough they are on the same box. Would this mean that the server services would answer TCP/IP packets only on the ethernet interface that is on my side of the firewall. lehquinn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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