Ingo, I so much enjoyed reading your answer. Thanks a lot for sharing. -Bogdan
On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 20:04 Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: > Hi Bogdan, > > Bogdan Kulbida wrote on Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 04:17:51PM -0700: > > > I need to build a pf OBSD firewall for a small office. What minimally > > feasible equipment would you recommend in order to achieve this goal? > > I seriously doubt that you can find anything in the trash that isn't > seriously oversized. > > In 2001, i ran an OpenBSD 2.7 firewall with ipf(4) on an > Intel 486-SX25 (25 MHz) with 24 MB (not GB!) RAM, a system > disk of 100 MB (not GB!) and a /var/ disk of another 100 MB. > The about ten concurrent users were happy with it for years. > > OK, that would no longer work because the SX25 had no numerical > coprocessor which is now required to run OpenBSD, and it required > some fiddling to fit the system installation into 100 MB. But it > always routed the traffic fast enough. > > Currently, one of my office firewalls runs on: > > - CPU: AMD-K6 234 MHz (yes, a quarter of a GHz) > - RAM: 128 MB (yes, an eigth of a GB) > - HD: ATA (not SATA!) UDMA-2, 3 GB (not 300 GB!) > > The only reason the machine is *THAT* large is that at the time it > was selected, we no longer had any smaller dismantled desktop > machines in the trash. I don't have the slightest doubt that a > much smaller machine would also be fine - certainly with half of > everything, like 100 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 1 GB disk. > > And since then, i'm too lazy to pull something newer from the trash > to replace it - because it just works. > > As a matter of fact, i'm sending this email over it... > > Yours, > Ingo > -- --- Best regards, Bogdan Kulbida Founder and CEO, Konstankino LLC <http://konstankino.com> +1.802.793.8295
