I am not a vendor, but the published specs for Global Internet and
Raptor both say Pentium 100 and 32 MB of RAM. I have run GI comfortably
on a 486/66 w/ 24 MB for a small test group (25 active users). Raptor
publishes formulas to deduce how much RAM you should have depending on
simultaneous connections but I do not have them handy.
Chris
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>From: Paul D. Robertson[SMTP:proberts @
clark .
net]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 1996 3:08 PM
>To: Nick Simicich
>Cc: Firewalls Mailing list
>Subject: Re: NT Firewalling
>
>On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Nick Simicich wrote:
>
>> > > With this neverending upgrade of client PC's, the availability of
>> > > Intel machines powerful enough to act as a firewall increases. Most
>> > > of us probably have an old 486/66 they can put 32MB in and run NT,
>> > > no?
>> >
>> > Or 8MB and run FreeBSD or Linux.
>>
>> Can you really run NT effectively in 32 meg? I have a friend who has
>>32 meg
>> in an Intel box running NT, and he is going to get another 32 meg,
>>because he
>> says that whenever he loads any app, the box just sits there and thrashes.
>
>You can effectively run *BSD, Solaris for Intel, and Linux on such a
>machine. That offers a large range of commercial and do-it-yourself
>options involving filtering, application proxies, and hybrids. Most of
>the NT folks I've spoken to wouldn't procure a box with less than 64M
>on
>it to do much of anything. Perhaps one of the NT vendors could post
>base
>requirements without adding any salesfluff?
>
>Paul
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