On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 14:03:51 -0400 "Michael H. Semcheski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > >Ok. After this little self promo its time for my questions. > >The building I live in has 200+ apartments which in near future will > >share an (I hope) powerful internet connection. Now I was put in-charge > >of selecting the equipment to preform firewalling and gateway. > >What I like it to do is firewalling and some sort of natted intranet > >with bandwidth management. My question is. How powerful should the > >gateway/firewall be? I am thinking about CPU and RAM and hardware en > >general. Also I would be glad to get pointers on where to read for > >setting up this..ofcause I will start whit the handbook right about here > > > > > > Get a Pentium III with 512m of RAM and Intel ethernet cards. Get SCSI > disks. You might look at a dell poweredge server. It probably does not > have to be the top of the line, but if you are going to get a real > highbandwidth connection to the net, you're probably going to be paying > a lot more per month in bandwidth than you will on hardware. The last > thing you want is a disk to go down. > > Realize that you are about to undertake a serious project, and don't > skimp on the initial hardware. Its a drop in the bucket in the long > term (even if it doesn't seem that way now.) Rackmount is good, because > physical space can be pretty expensive. > > Don't get the cheapest thing you can find, because you really want to > put off upgrading it as long as possible. (even if the upgrade is to > replace a burned out fan) > > Mike I'm in a similar position, but on a smaller scale. I'm trying to figure out where these Switched Gateway/Routers/Firewall/VPN devices that are coming on the market fit in, and where it is better to use our favorite FreeBSD machine to do the work? Would I be wrong in assuming these little hardware devices are faster at the job than a FreeBSD machine? James To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
