RE: IP-Cop Firerwall was RE: [PCTECH] Ilearnedsomethingaboutcertificatesandencrypting filesystems theother day ...

["Bob Crothers" <bob2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam,

What is used for the base hardware will depend on what you are
doing.

To much hardware rarely hurts.

To little hardware can hurt.

If setting up a home firewall, 200mhz is as low as I go because
I've already thrown all my 100mhz machines in the garbage.

In a business environment, if you've got a 400mhz, use it.  But
if you've got an unused 800mhz machine, use that.  And yes, a
200mhz might work fine. But the 400/800 might work better and it
doesn't cost me any more to use them.  So the
Price/Performance/Risk assessment says use the 800mhz.

I repeat: To much hardware rarely hurts.  If you want to start at
400 then so be it.

If you cant stand the thought of using Open Source software, then
don't use it.  Pay $2,000 to Cisco, plus support costs and
consulting/training costs.  That is your decision.

If I was protecting Fort Knox this would be a non-issue.  There
would be NO internet connection!

But I'm not.  IPCop works very well for my Company.  It might
also work for your company.  But perhaps not...in which case,
don't use it.

But to me, we are quibbling over meaningless details. And I'm
done quibbling.

Bob 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adam Lang
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 3:14 PM
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject: Re: IP-Cop Firerwall was RE: [PCTECH] 
> Ilearnedsomethingaboutcertificatesandencrypting filesystems 
> theother day ...
> 
> 
> If you are goign to buy something new for it, yeah, you have 
> no choice and
> anythign out there would be above and beyond sufficient.  The 
> thing is, you
> were recommending the 800 MHz/256 RAM config saying it was 
> needed.  That
> much hardware is not needed.  If they have a 200 Mhz+ computer
laying
> around, they will msot likely be fine, unless they are doing 
> other things
> not mentioned.  Even if they are going nuts with it and doing 
> VPNs and such
> (where it is the end point) a 400 MHz comptuer would still be 
> "top end".
> You will see NO difference between a 400 Mhz and an 800 MHz 
> computer.  If
> you do, then the software you are running on it is a hog.
> 
> As for the point about HDD failure, if that is a serious 
> issue, then that is
> a bonus going with a CISCO like appliance since everything is 
> ROM based and
> you have no moving parts.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Crothers" <bob2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'" 
> <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 2:30 PM
> Subject: RE: IP-Cop Firerwall was RE: [PCTECH] I
> learnedsomethingaboutcertificatesandencrypting filesystems 
> the other day ...
> 
> 
> > But that is also why I was advocating using more hardware
then
> > necessary.  But, keep in mind that you can buy a brand new
> > current system that would be way over kill for $500 or less.
> 
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