Hi all, I'm trying to place a FreeBSD firewall into our network. It needs to be able to filter traffic for up to 50 machines using a total of up to 128 IP addresses between them.
The daily average traffic inbound is 4276.3 kb/s with today's max being 7695.0 kb/s. We do need to be able to cope with up to 30 Mb/s for extended periods of time though (months). The network setup will be as follows: - 2 Cisco 36xx's connected to ISP's backbone and a 100Mb switch - FreeBSD machine with 2 interfaces, one connected to the same switch as the routers and the other connected to the switch that all the servers are connected to - 100Mb Switch with all hosting servers connected to it, as well as the second interface on the FreeBSD firewall I want to run the firewall in bridging mode, so there will be no IP's assigned to the ethernet interfaces of that machine, and it will be invisible on the network. I then want to use IPFW to filter all incoming and outgoing traffic. The machine I have in mind for this task is as follows: Pentium III 667 Mhz with 512MB RAM 2 x Intel EtherExpress 100Mb cards If this is not sufficient I have the following: Intel Xeon 2.80GHz with 2GB RAM 1 x Intel PRO/1000 Network adaptor 1 x Intel EtherExpress Pro/100(B) I would prefer to avoid having to use the second machine if at all possible as this has been designated as a server, but if the first machine listed here is not sufficient then I would have to. Would either of these machines be able to meet my firewall requirements ? Regards, -- Wayne Pascoe If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now! _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
