Firewall // Network Shaping

I was thinking of putting up my old Pentium 90 as firewall for my local
network at home. With about 10-30 rules for IPTABLES.

But what I wonder thou is if a P90 is suffident for network shaping, and how
much ram I probably would need.

The network shaping would be a simple one with 2 layers

Aswell, what distro should I preferable use, or even not linux?

I have no expercience within networkshaping, so any tips around there would
be nice too

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[shaping plan:]
Computer B-D shall have even access to the net and form a group that shall
have even access to the net as computer A (server)

[firewall]
[comp A] 50 ~ 50 [group B]
[comp B to D] (evenly split)

computer B-D will not constaty be running

possibly will the firewall have 3 network cards [uplink], [direct link to
comp A] and [switch to computer B-D]
or eventuelly will comp A be connected to the switch aswell

computer A-D will probably all run any type of windows

Jasper RK Germeys wrote:
> I was thinking of putting up my old Pentium 90 as firewall for my local
> network at home. With about 10-30 rules for IPTABLES.
>
> But what I wonder thou is if a P90 is suffident for network shaping, and how
> much ram I probably would need.
>
> The network shaping would be a simple one with 2 layers
>
> Aswell, what distro should I preferable use, or even not linux?
>
> I have no expercience within networkshaping, so any tips around there would
> be nice too
>
> please reply to (E-Mail Removed)
>
> [shaping plan:]
> Computer B-D shall have even access to the net and form a group that shall
> have even access to the net as computer A (server)
>
> [firewall]
> [comp A] 50 ~ 50 [group B]
> [comp B to D] (evenly split)
>
> computer B-D will not constaty be running
>
> possibly will the firewall have 3 network cards [uplink], [direct link to
> comp A] and [switch to computer B-D]
> or eventuelly will comp A be connected to the switch aswell
>
> computer A-D will probably all run any type of windows

I run "IPCop" on a 486-66 with 18Mb of RAM and 200Mb of HDU - and
although it's a tight fit, it works fine.

--
http://www.lowth.com/rope - Iptables Packet matching using an
in-kernel scripting language.

"Jasper RK Germeys" <(E-Mail Removed)> écrivait
news:MDvCe.29282$(E-Mail Removed):
> But what I wonder thou is if a P90 is suffident for network shaping,
> and how much ram I probably would need.

I run Coyote Linux on a 486DX4/100 with 64MB RAM.

It use a 3"1/2 floppy only and no hard drive.


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