On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 05:10:50AM -0700, Grant Moby spoke thusly: >I need to setup a NetFilter/Linux firewall at my company, but I'm not sure >what spec hardware box I need. > >There are about 100 users surfing the web, sending and receiving email >over a 256k line, a couple of subnets, a DMZ, etc. OK. 256k line will be easily handled by a 486/Pentium 100Mhz host. How many subnets and what is their interconnectivity ? Very high traffic Mbits/s ? How many connections per second are initiated (to keep up with conntrack) ? Short / long lived ? The only way to be sure is to benchmark it in your own network, that said -- I'll be surprised is a PII 266Mhz, 128Mb of RAM won't be able to handle your setup. Unless you've got funky going-ons in your network :-) (snip remaining)
