Firewall question

[Bill White <bill.white@griggsinst.com>]

Hi.  I have a question about how powerful my firewall computer should
be.

I want to make a firewall for a small constellation of computers
in my living room.  Behind the firewall I will have two Win98 computers,
one computer which boots Win98 or several flavors of Unix/Linux, and
one Hurd box.  This system will be entirely single user at any one
time, though there may be different users.  The network application
will mostly be using VPN software to use Outlook and downloading
source files through a CM system.  Think of it as using CVS on a
1.0e6 line SW project, with 10 or so engineers making changes.  I
will need to fetch changed files from the internal network.

I have an old 486DX120 machine which needs memory.  I was planning
to put 32Mb in it and letting it be the firewall.  The two Win98
machines are on one subnet, and one hub, and everything else is
on a second hub and subnet, so the firewall box will handle
routing between the two subnets.  I need this to work this way for
the VPN on the Win98 machines.  The other machines are not involved
in the VPN at all.

Does this computer seem reasonably powerful?

Thanks.