Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 18:52:49 -0700 From: "Rhino" <rhino@hankandheather.com> To: <Lehquin@aol.com> Cc: "BSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: firewall, how much horsepower? Message-ID: <KFEIIDCJNHBCGLAFNMJIOEMDCCAA.rhino@hankandheather.com> In-Reply-To: <9f.5b1fdb1.265b3b7a@aol.com>
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I'm running a 486/66 with 8 mb and a 800 mb hard drive and running qmail (with POP), apache, NCFtp, SSH, NATD, IPFW and have about 30 people popping mail, with about 8 people logging in with shell accounts, and 4 computers accessing DSL through it. It works great! Now, I'd recommend more power, and what you say you're going to run should work more than adequate. I know people running a similar set up to mine on a 386! The beauty of BSD at work. I'm only running command line through it, no X windows. But once set up, it won't require a whole lot of your time anyway. Hank -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Lehquin@aol.com Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 6:40 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: firewall, how much horsepower? 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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