I will be pushing 25 - 30 Mbps at this point. This will have a private
internal network with "Average" usage behind it. Up until now I have always
had a FreeBSD box doing this job with no port forwards (Basically just an
internet sharing role). I plan on redoing the box as it has started having
slight hardware issues and decided to go Ubuntu/Shorewall since that is what
they use at my work (which I took over as IT Manager and admin the box).
Now the only networking changes that I am considering doing is moving some
public servers to behind it. I have had a FreeBSD email server, Ubuntu
Asterisk server, CentOS Web server, and a Windows 2k8 server open to the
internet with real world IP addresses. I know, everyone is cringing right
about now, but I have kept up with the local security on the boxes and not
had a problem. The asterisk box is running showewall on it for it's own
protection (I cut out most of the crap out there by black listing Russia and
China). Anyway, I have been thinking of moving those boxes to behind the
firewall. At that point it will be routing for a half dozen low volume
websites and a half dozen email domains.
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez <robe...@connexer.com>wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 08:06:50AM +0200, Simon Matter 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.
> >
> > Do you want to push some Mbits/s or multi Gbits/s through your firewall
> > and do you plan to handle VPN connections terminated on the same box?
> That
> > can make a difference but without any information nobody can really tell
> > you something useful.
> >
> It is also worth noting that if you wish to do traffic shaping that will
> impact your hardware requirements as well. It is worth noting that if
> you plan to do traffic shaping or accounting, that will require more
> powerful hardware.
>
> However, Simon is right. Without more details it is impossible to give
> you anything resembling a sensible answer.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto
>
> --
> Roberto C. Sánchez
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> http://www.connexer.com
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