We are moving into an office after too long a time working in my basement Yeah! I have an old compaq 486 dx4 25-75MHz machine that has been a firewall for a long time and using diald to handle dialing into my ISP. The office will have a 1.5 max download and 300 something upload ADSL line installed. will the old compaq keep up? How will I be able to tell? I would rather not create a bottle neck right off the bat although I don't plan on it being mision crit. until the website is up. specs: dx4 25 intel 40 MB RAM 10Mb ethernet no X at all kernel 2.2.5-15 ipchains masq. I have a couple of other machines I could put to the task including an old gateway 486 running an 83 Mhz pentium overdrive, and a newer amd k6 -2(3?) 350. I just have no idea of the processing power needed to keep up. In a security related question, I have 5 ip addresses that are part of the package. Should I put the mailserver and webserver out there on the same network as the incoming ADSL line or put it behind the firewall and use ipportfw or whatever it is to get to the boxes? Any and all opinions/comments welcome. We are a startup and can't afford full time networking guy yet and I will be doing the admin stuff until we can get some real funding. I have been dinking with linux for over two years but I am sure that I don't know more now than I didn't know when I started and now that wwe are going to have a dedicated line with a static IP I am am running more than a little scared about the security issues. Bret Hughes Chief Solutionist Elevating Communications, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
