On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 21:56, Jason Joines wrote:
/ We have a subnet with a potential of 1022 hosts. Each machine is /// /connected to a 100 Mbps switch. The connection from our subnet to the /// /main university network is I believe OC-3, ~154 Mbps. There are /// /currently less than 500 active machines on the network. They do the /// /normal web brosing, and connect to NetWare and Domino servers outside /// /the subnet. With that, the maximum traffic we've ever seen between our /// /subnet and the rest of the world is about 40 Mbps./// //// / We'd like to put all the boxes on our subnet behind and IPTables /// /firewall and NAT them. We'd also like to take into consideration the /// /possibility of the number of machines growing to ~1000. We have quite a /// /few spare PIII 450 boxes setting around./// //// / What would be the mininum, ideal, etc., hardware setup for this /// /environment./// //// //// /Thanks,/// //// /Jason Joines/// /Open Source = Open Mind/// /========================/// ////
Hi,
Ideally if you put p-3 machine with 256MB ram should work in this situation assuming that you are not running any application on the firewall other than packet filtering.
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-- Regards Dharmendra.T dharmu@xxxxxxxxxxx Linux Security and Admin
Yep, just doing packet filtering. How many p3 with 256 MB would you recommend?
Thanks,
Jason ===========
