Hardware requirements for firewall

[Wayne Pascoe]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:36:25PM +0000, Francisco wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Wayne Pascoe wrote:
> 
> > Pentium III 667 Mhz with 512MB RAM
> > 2 x Intel EtherExpress 100Mb cards
> ....
> > Would either of these machines be able to meet my firewall requirements
> 
> 
> Why not just try it?

Because it's a commercial hosting operation pushing up to 20Mb/s with
SLA's to our clients. 

My biggest fear is not that this won't work, but that it will work but
with intermittant bugs. Any performance loss will cost us money and I'm
just trying to do a bit of research before leaping in :) 

-- 
Wayne Pascoe
You cannot apply a technological solution to
a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)