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You were passing off an 800 Mhz as neccessary.  I was just stating that
there is no way you should need that much hardware for a firewall system.

Just as a comparison.  The Cisco Pix 515, which I use at my office, will
handle over 100,000+ simultaneous connections and 2000 3DES VPN connections
and it uses a 400MHz processor and 64 MB of RAM.

So, saying you need 800 MHz and 1 gig of RAM is above and beyond overkill.
I don't want you to possibly scare anyone off becasue they think they need a
big piece of hardware to run a firewall, whether they build it themselves
from a normal OS install or run a pre-packaged system.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Crothers" <bob2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'" <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 9:46 AM
Subject: RE: [PCTECH] RE: IP-Cop Firewall


> I use a 233 at home and a 400mhz here at the office.
>
> You could go to the ipcop.org website and get decent
> recommendations for hardware.  But I've got machines hanging
> around in that speed range.  Only our lowliest sales puke gets a
> machine below 800mhz.
>
> Besides, I'd rather have to much hardware in critical locations
> than not enough.
>
> BTW, it is very easy to move IPCop between platforms.
>
> Bob


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