Would it be advisable though to stick to intel nics over realtecs?  I know
when building untangle firewall / filter servers everyone advises to stay
away from realtecks and marvells.

I am trying to build this with as little slow down as possible.



On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Christ Schlacta <aarc...@gmail.com> wrote:

>  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 pentium
> 3 systems.  Anything you have should be sufficient.  As for RAM, your OS
> minimum should also be sufficient, though more is always better, that only
> goes so far for packet switching applications.  I ran shorewall on a system
> with 64MB RAM briefly, and it worked fine.
>
>
> On 10/10/2010 8:52 PM, Smokin Chevy wrote:
>
> 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
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