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. > >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. > > > >>Hi, >> >>This box is more then enought for a firewall ;)...i really think you >>could send 50Mbits+ of filtered traffic thru this box ;) >> >>Bgrds, >>Finnur >> >>Simone wrote: >> >> >> >>>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 >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>CentOS mailing list >>>CentOS at centos.org >>>http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>> >>> >>_______________________________________________ >>CentOS mailing list >>CentOS at centos.org >>http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > >