Re: need firewall advice

1998-11-16 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, In this case I actually want to get the full 100 BaseT bandwidth because the firewall is between our department and the rest of our site. The actual link to the internet is quite high speed (much more than T1). So the question remains I think: how much cpu power does it take to get full 10

Re: need firewall advice

1998-11-16 Thread Piotr Wachowiak
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Stuart Marshall wrote: > > > I will be setting up a firewall and need to decide what type of > > computer to buy. It will be a debian intel pc running as a > > packet filtering system (restricting various ports, etc) and will > >

need firewall advice

1998-11-16 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, I will be setting up a firewall and need to decide what type of computer to buy. It will be a debian intel pc running as a packet filtering system (restricting various ports, etc) and will have 2 100 BaseT interfaces. I plan to use 2.1.XXX kernels and ipchains. In the future it may get fanci