RE: [PCTECH] RE: IP-Cop Firewall

["Bob Crothers" <bob2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adam Lang
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 9:20 AM
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] RE: IP-Cop Firewall
> 
> 
> To be honest, that is a LOT of hardware to run just a 
> firewall.  You should
> have no issue running a small office on a 200 Mhz system, as 
> long as that is
> all you are doing with the hardware is being a firewall.  
> Granted, IPCop
> could require more, but if it does, it is a horrible resource 
> hog and would
> make me wonder what it is doing to require all that hardware.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Crothers" <bob2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'" 
> <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 3:49 PM
> Subject: [PCTECH] RE: IP-Cop Firewall
> 
> 
> > James,
> >
> > I love IPCop and use it both at home for my network of 3 PC's
> > over a cable modem and at work for our corp network.
> >
> > Get a semi-low end PC.  Say 800mhz to 1ghz with 256meg of RAM
and
> > you will be in business.
> >
> > Cost is the hardware.
> >
> > Bob
> 
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