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Subject: Re: firewalls on single boxes ?
From: J C Lawrence (clawKANGA.NU)
Date: Sat Oct 28 2000 - 19:43:10 CDT

On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 08:42:41 -0700
John Sage <jsageFINCHHAVEN.COM> wrote:

> I'm running my firewall on a Pentium 150 with 48mb RAM; it's also
> running a caching-only name server, PortSentry (see:
> http://www.psionic.com/abacus/portsentry/ ) and LogCheck (see:
> http://www.psionic.com/abacus/logcheck/ ) Apache (internally), and
> some other stuff and it's not even breaking a sweat. It's *not*
> running X, however ;-)

An i386-33 with 8Meg RAM is actually overpowered for most home Linux
firewall duties (given that you are not running a proxy-style
firewall ala TiSGate). 

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