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[Tom Allison <tom@tacocat.net>]

Hi, new to the list, old to Debian.

I've been using ipcop for a long time but decided that I might as well 
use a real system since I have more that I would like to do than just 
ipcop level stuff.

Question:
I have a Pentium 450 (darn small) that I'm thinking of using for a 
firewall in my home (relatively low traffic).  I think this might be OK, 
previously I used a 500MHz Via chipset computer.

It's biggest problem may be that it won't support fast ethernet or Gig-e 
network traffic between subnets at speed.  How big of a CPU do I need 
for 100MB or 1GB network traffic?