[Shorewall-users] Hardware requirements

2010-10-10 Thread Smokin Chevy
Does anyone have any suggestions for hardware requirements? Will a single core have the same throughput as a dual core? Amount of RAM? I will be using Ubuntu Server. -Jeffrey Gray -- Beautiful is writing same markup. I

Re: [Shorewall-users] Hardware requirements

2010-10-10 Thread Christ Schlacta
Shorewall doesn't run in memory, it just prepares rules for iptables and loads them in a sane fashion. Therefore, the requirements for shorewall aren't anything more than the sum of the components. as that's the case, there are people running effective linux firewalls on pentium 2 and pentiu

Re: [Shorewall-users] Hardware requirements

2010-10-10 Thread Simon Matter
> Does anyone have any suggestions for hardware requirements? Will a single > core have the same throughput as a dual core? Amount of RAM? I will be > using Ubuntu Server. Do you want to push some Mbits/s or multi Gbits/s through your firewall and do you plan to handle VPN connections terminate