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Sorry, yeah, you said 256MB RAM.  It was 800 to 1 ghz for the processor.
Brain synapses crossed for a second. ;) But still, same point with the
amount of RAM and processor you listed.  I highly doubt the processor knwos
there is a program running on it. ;)

It does all come down to waht you have laying around.  I guess I just wanted
to portray that ANY Pentium II+ hardware you have laying about will make an
adequate firewall and there are no significant hardware requirements.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Crothers" <bob2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'" <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:14 AM
Subject: RE: [PCTECH] RE: IP-Cop Firewall


> Don't remember saying a gig of ram.
>
> But, you are correct.  You don't need as much machine as I said.
> But *I* would still use a machine of that caliber.  Besides, it
> will be a newer machine so the disk drive will have more time
> left on it before failure.  Tho my experience with old hardware
> is that if it lives to be called old, then it will probably live
> close to forever!
>
> I've still got fax servers out there running DOS on a 386
> machine!
>
> Bob


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