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Re: Re: is iptables enough?



On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 21:21:42 +0000, amon@vnl.com wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:45:48PM +0100, Janus N. T?ndering wrote:
> > This should be more than enough. I have been running a mailserver on a
> > Pentium 133MHz 96 RAM + SCSI for a few years. It can handle quite a lot
> > mail --- never had a problem.
> 
> Hah! Is nothing! I run a cablemodem firewall, multiple
> VPN's, DNS, with snort, tiger, and other tools on a
> 486 with 16MB of RAM!
I hope that machine has scsi disks like my gateway (120MB & 1GB) since with that low on ram your machine is always swapping. That's usually no problem, but IDE disks tend to wear out fast when used 24/7. With more RAM (32-40M) your disks will be more standby.

Gr,

Ivo van Dongen



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