Re: Another Hardware Sizing Question

[Jason Joines <joines@bus.okstate.edu>]

Dharmendra.T wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 21:56, Jason Joines wrote:
> 
> /   We have a subnet with a potential of 1022 hosts.  Each machine is ///
> /connected to a 100 Mbps switch.  The connection from our subnet to the ///
> /main university network is I believe OC-3, ~154 Mbps.  There are ///
> /currently less than 500 active machines on the network.  They do the ///
> /normal web brosing, and connect to NetWare and Domino servers outside ///
> /the subnet.  With that, the maximum traffic we've ever seen between our ///
> /subnet and the rest of the world is about 40 Mbps.///
> ////
> /   We'd like to put all the boxes on our subnet behind and IPTables ///
> /firewall and NAT them.  We'd also like to take into consideration the ///
> /possibility of the number of machines growing to ~1000.  We have quite a ///
> /few spare PIII 450 boxes setting around.///
> ////
> /   What would be the mininum, ideal, etc., hardware setup for this ///
> /environment.///
> ////
> ////
> /Thanks,///
> ////
> /Jason Joines///
> /Open Source = Open Mind///
> /========================///
> ////
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Ideally if you put p-3 machine with 256MB ram should work in this 
> situation assuming that you are not running any application on the 
> firewall other than packet filtering.
> 
> ////
> 
> -- 
> Regards
> Dharmendra.T
> dharmu@nsecure.net
> Linux Security and Admin
> 


  Yep, just doing packet filtering.  How many p3 with 256 MB would you 
recommend?

Thanks,

Jason
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