[CentOS] slow responding firewall server [SOLVED]

[Chris Mauritz]

Peter Farrow wrote:

> I upgraded the motherboard to a 933 MHz PIII, same ram and disk 
> arrangement,
>
> Problem went away...
>
> Seems a PII 450 can't cut it on Centos 4.2.... but it is an old 
> machine anyway...



That's good news.  I have some older P3-733/512mbRAM 1RU machines that 
were lightly used that are being replaced.  I was a bit nervous about 
deploying a couple of them as firewall machines, but I suspect they'll 
still outperform an ancient Cisco PIX 520 for satellite office duty.

Cheers,