Hi, I am going to set up an office of 30 employees and since it's the first time I thought I will ask for suggestions (trying to make a CentOS base office :) ). I was planning to re use an old Compaq LPr PII 450, sw mirrored scsi 10000rpm disks, 448Mb RAM, to build a CentOS based firewall and I was wondering if this hardware would be enough to serve 30 clients (I already have a centos firewall serving 8 users on a PC celeron 1,3Ghz machine and top shows average load 0.00). The other service they'll need is filesharing, which will be Samba running on samba Dell PE1800 (although we could use a compaq 1850r PIII 600), while for the phone system I would like to set up Asterisk and I was wondering if anyone has had a good experience with the Xorcom TS-1, which seems a nice cost effective system. Suggestions are very welcome, have a nice day. Simone
Hi, This box is more then enought for a firewall ;)...i really think you could send 50Mbits+ of filtered traffic thru this box ;) Bgrds, Finnur Simone wrote:> Hi, > I am going to set up an office of 30 employees and since it's the > first time I thought I will ask for suggestions (trying to make a > CentOS base office :) ). I was planning to re use an old Compaq LPr > PII 450, sw mirrored scsi 10000rpm disks, 448Mb RAM, to build a > CentOS based firewall and I was wondering if this hardware would be > enough to serve 30 clients (I already have a centos firewall serving 8 > users on a PC celeron 1,3Ghz machine and top shows average load 0.00). > The other service they'll need is filesharing, which will be Samba > running on samba Dell PE1800 (although we could use a compaq 1850r > PIII 600), while for the phone system I would like to set up Asterisk > and I was wondering if anyone has had a good experience with the > Xorcom TS-1, which seems a nice cost effective system. > > Suggestions are very welcome, have a nice day. > > Simone > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
This box will work great. If you would like to find out about a HowTo with regards to the basic building, not ruleset management, of a firewall using CentOS, look in the security section of the Forums.>Hi, > >This box is more then enought for a firewall ;)...i really think you >could send 50Mbits+ of filtered traffic thru this box ;) > >Bgrds, >Finnur > >Simone wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am going to set up an office of 30 employees and since it's the >> first time I thought I will ask for suggestions (trying to make a >> CentOS base office :) ). I was planning to re use an old Compaq LPr >> PII 450, sw mirrored scsi 10000rpm disks, 448Mb RAM, to build a >> CentOS based firewall and I was wondering if this hardware would be >> enough to serve 30 clients (I already have a centos firewall serving 8 >> users on a PC celeron 1,3Ghz machine and top shows average load 0.00). >> The other service they'll need is filesharing, which will be Samba >> running on samba Dell PE1800 (although we could use a compaq 1850r >> PIII 600), while for the phone system I would like to set up Asterisk >> and I was wondering if anyone has had a good experience with the >> Xorcom TS-1, which seems a nice cost effective system. >> >> Suggestions are very welcome, have a nice day. >> >> Simone >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos