Re: Hardware Requirements?

From: Jack Peacock (peacock_at_simconv.com)
Date: 11/05/04 

Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 08:21:21 -0800

"Jake Horn" <jhorn_remove_@order4chaos_nospam.com> wrote in message
news:OZPeYEuwEHA.3808@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> We are a small company with 10 employees. We are also a MS partner so we
> get the software NFR.
>
> Anyway, I am looking at upgrading our firewall and wondering what kind of
> hardware I need to run ISA as a border firewall.
>
> We have 2 T-1s of bandwidth coming in and I would like the ability to set
> up a true DMZ.
I use a 1Ghz AMD (which would be roughly equivalent to a 1.4Ghz P4) and
512MB of RAM with one T-1 line, and a third NIC for a wireless access point.
CPU barely gets above 10%, very little paging, disk cache 1GB (far more than
needed), but the job mix doesn't generate a lot of internet traffic
throughout the day.

For 10 employees just about any old PC you have lying around would work.
I've used a P II-266 with 256MB and ISA 2000 for a similar sized company and
it worked fine. I'd suggest you put in at least 512MB if you go with ISA
2004.
  Jack Pea***

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