[CentOS] firewall and * suggestions

Fri Apr 14 10:14:20 UTC 2006
Simone <simone72 at email.it>

Thanks guys, I really appreciate your replies, I will definitely go for 
the howto.
I will turn the Asterisk and Samba related questions to their respective 
list, thanks again

Simone

pctech at mybellybutton.com wrote:

>This box will work great.
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>If you would like to find out about a HowTo with regards to the basic building, not ruleset management, of a firewall using CentOS, look in the security section of the Forums.
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>>Hi,
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>>This box is more then enought for a firewall ;)...i really think you 
>>could send 50Mbits+ of filtered traffic thru this box ;)
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>>Bgrds,
>>Finnur
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>>Simone wrote:
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>>>Hi,
>>>I am going to set up an office of 30 employees and since it's the 
>>>first time I thought I will ask for suggestions (trying to make a 
>>>CentOS base office :) ). I was planning to re use an old Compaq LPr 
>>>PII 450, sw mirrored scsi 10000rpm disks, 448Mb RAM,  to build a 
>>>CentOS based firewall and I was wondering if this hardware would be 
>>>enough to serve 30 clients (I already have a centos firewall serving 8 
>>>users on a PC celeron 1,3Ghz machine and top shows average load 0.00).
>>>The other service they'll need is filesharing, which will be Samba 
>>>running on samba Dell PE1800 (although we could use a compaq 1850r 
>>>PIII 600), while for the phone system I would like to set up Asterisk 
>>>and I was wondering if anyone has had a good experience with the 
>>>Xorcom TS-1, which seems a nice cost effective system.
>>>
>>>Suggestions are very welcome, have a nice day.
>>>
>>>Simone
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