Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
At 14:35 3/3/2004, you wrote:
FYI, I'm running a 450MHz PIII box with 596MB memory as a small
server doing
mail (POP and IMP webmail for user interface, sendmail as the MTA,
and file
and print services for the PCs in the house). Most of the time the
machine
sits idle. It's connected via a 100Mbps el-cheapo network card to the
broadband router.
Heh... I'm using two machines with Pentium (Classic) CPUs at 166MHz,
32MB of RAM, and a 1GB hard drive as firewall/gateway, DHCP, DNS, and
NTP servers. One runs at my house, with three or four client machines
behind it, and the other runs at my office with about 30 machines
behind it. Both work like a charm, run Fedora Core 1 with my idea of a
minimal install, and *still* sit idle most of the time.
All those services you are running are very "light", most commercial
firewalls only use P1 or Celeron procs anyway so what you have is pretty
much the same hardware spec as a commercial firewall that would cost
thousands if you had to buy it.. Also products like WatchGuard firewalls
run a Linux OS anyway.. :)
Later..
