Hi, I will be setting up a firewall and need to decide what type of computer to buy. It will be a debian intel pc running as a packet filtering system (restricting various ports, etc) and will have 2 100 BaseT interfaces. I plan to use 2.1.XXX kernels and ipchains. In the future it may get fancier with proxy support and more interfaces on the inside of the wall. What I need to know now is how much computer to buy. Should I get 450 MHz PII or is an older 200 MHz PPro enough? How much memory and disk should be available for possible future proxy services?
Once I purchase the machine I will no doubt have more questions about ip-chains etc. thanks, Stuart
