But - The thing that isn't mentioned here is basically Power Cost and Consumption vs PPS(Packet Processing Speed).
IMNSHO running on anything that doesn't ; A) Have passive Cooling B) Is older than a couple of years (in intel/amd terms anything with a TDPW above 65W) - is probably not a great idea. Mainly because the on-going cost of supplying power to old junkers isn't worth what you can do with a 'newish' junker. If you have free electricity, feel free to do what you like I guess. -Joel On 4 September 2018 at 15:10, Bogdan Kulbida <i...@konstankino.com> wrote: > Ingo, > I so much enjoyed reading your answer. Thanks a lot for sharing. > > -Bogdan > > On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 20:04 Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: > >> Hi Bogdan, >> >> Bogdan Kulbida wrote on Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 04:17:51PM -0700: >> >> > I need to build a pf OBSD firewall for a small office. What minimally >> > feasible equipment would you recommend in order to achieve this goal? >> >> I seriously doubt that you can find anything in the trash that isn't >> seriously oversized. >> >> In 2001, i ran an OpenBSD 2.7 firewall with ipf(4) on an >> Intel 486-SX25 (25 MHz) with 24 MB (not GB!) RAM, a system >> disk of 100 MB (not GB!) and a /var/ disk of another 100 MB. >> The about ten concurrent users were happy with it for years. >> >> OK, that would no longer work because the SX25 had no numerical >> coprocessor which is now required to run OpenBSD, and it required >> some fiddling to fit the system installation into 100 MB. But it >> always routed the traffic fast enough. >> >> Currently, one of my office firewalls runs on: >> >> - CPU: AMD-K6 234 MHz (yes, a quarter of a GHz) >> - RAM: 128 MB (yes, an eigth of a GB) >> - HD: ATA (not SATA!) UDMA-2, 3 GB (not 300 GB!) >> >> The only reason the machine is *THAT* large is that at the time it >> was selected, we no longer had any smaller dismantled desktop >> machines in the trash. I don't have the slightest doubt that a >> much smaller machine would also be fine - certainly with half of >> everything, like 100 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 1 GB disk. >> >> And since then, i'm too lazy to pull something newer from the trash >> to replace it - because it just works. >> >> As a matter of fact, i'm sending this email over it... >> >> Yours, >> Ingo >> > -- > --- > Best regards, > Bogdan Kulbida > Founder and CEO, Konstankino LLC <http://konstankino.com> > +1.802.793.8295
