shouldnt be a problem, most machines i build are very multipurpose and usually all have their own individual firewalls. e.g. my home network is 3 machines, with 1 of them acting as:
firewall gateway(hooked directly to the dsl router) NAT NFS server NIS server www server POP3 server SMTP server DNS ftp server Unreal tournament server runs solaris on top of vmware port forwarding for a couple ports X server x font server(true type) ssh server dhcp server nocol server snmpd server(for gatherning network stats) vpnd client proxy/caching server(squid) i use it for irc too its a k6-3 400 256MB with a 640k dsl connect and 36GB of hd. soon to be upgraded to a 1mb connect. my firewall rules are quite extensive, and it works great. thats one of the things i like best about linux is it's ability to do tons of things at the same time. some people are more paranoid and like to have a dedicated box for a firewall, but for my situation a dedicated box is not needed. you can see the webserver and mrtg/ipac stats at http://portal.aphroland.org or join me in unreal tournament sometime at portal.aphroland.org:12001 (private server, not advertised to the world since im limited on b/w) if there was more services that i felt were useful id be the first to try them :) nate Mark Simos wrote: > > I am looking to put together a Debian based firewall and a mail server > -how bad of an idea is it to host them on the same machine? > (please explain how dumb it is, if so) > > How much power would I need (CPU/RAM/HD) to make it (or each of them) > work? > > I just browse at home and download the occasional files and would like > to learn how to configure various mail and firewall packages. not too > much strain. > > Thanks! > > Mark > > p.s. please cc to me directly on replies > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]