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RE: Smooth wall - more detailed



On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> Also, putting a mail gateway (with a virus scanner!) on a gateway machine
> means you need a much beefier machine there (If you're talking about
> anything bigger than a small office, it should probably be on a seperate
> machine)

gimme a bloody break. I ran a NexGen586 90 Mhz machine as a Masquerading
firewall with mail and web proxies for an office of 40, and we got huge
amounts of data through, fully using the T1 to UUnet it had behind it
with streams of multimedia, files and all, and load average never rose
above 1-1.5 at the peeks. to add virus checking for that kind of office
a Pentium 200 would have been enough, or a pentium pro. virus checking
is more disk access than processing.

so if you have a company of 100-150, the silliest duron or celeron would
still do. the kind you throw off someone's desk because it's too old to
be a workstation. "beefy" is the last thing a company firewall needs to
be...

-- 
A ticking time-bomb
Ira Abramov


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