Re: Performance needed for an Internet gateway
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 06:09:10PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Oct 2002 the mental interface of
> Balazs Javor told:
>
> > NAT / port forwarding
> > packet filtering
This can be done quite easily with iptables.
> > bandwidth management / trafic shaping
You'll probably want to check out this site:
http://lartc.org/
in particular:
http://lartc.org/wondershaper/
> > some sort of secure access for my laptop through wireless network
IPSEC or PPTP work well for this sort of thing.
> > I was wondering what sort of processing power is needed for such a
> > computer?
>
> You can also set up an at least
> 200MHz box with ipchains and ipmasq.
I doubt the OP would need anything remotely near a 200Mhz system. I've
done all of the above (with the single exception of traffic shaping) on
a 486SX25 with a mere 16 Megs of RAM. The system is running Debian
woody with a 2.4.18 kernel. It provides an iptables based firewall
along with PPTP and IPSEC VPN access along with SSH connectivity for
remote administration.
--
Jamin W. Collins
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