>> I would be looking close at 500+MHz for the CPU, to be honest. > > It seems very huge to me! I heard many running some 486 or pentium as > thier firewall... Here a 486DX 33MHz and RAM 8Mo :) iptables (NAT) + snort + fwlogwatch More than 10 hours to compile a kernel but no more than 25% cpu for a 512Kbps