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Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 21:02:54 +0800
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On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 05:10:50AM -0700, Grant Moby spoke thusly:

>I need to setup a NetFilter/Linux firewall at my company, but I'm not sure
>what spec hardware box I need.
> 
>There are about 100 users surfing the web, sending and receiving email
>over a 256k line, a couple of subnets, a DMZ, etc.

OK. 256k line will be easily handled by a 486/Pentium 100Mhz host. How many
subnets and what is their interconnectivity ? Very high traffic Mbits/s ?

How many connections per second are initiated (to keep up with conntrack) ?
Short / long lived ?

The only way to be sure is to benchmark it in your own network, that said
-- I'll be surprised is a PII 266Mhz, 128Mb of RAM won't be able to handle
your setup. Unless you've got funky going-ons in your network :-)

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