On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:39:21PM +0000, Keith O'Connell wrote: > 1: I have a 133MHz pentium, 1Gb disk and 32Mb ram. I want to use this > as a firewall.
We have a similar box as a firewall (doing NAT), and there are 10 others behind it. No problem with it. It can easily do the task (really!) > > 2: Also an 400MHz AMD K6-2, 6Gb disk and 80Mb ram. This is to be a > name server and an email server I'd say it can handle it, except if you have a *very* high quantity of e-mail (not the amount you'd get at home). > Neither of them will have X on them, so what I need to know is; > a: they are not up to the tasks > b: they are just up to the tasks > c: they are easily up to the tasks > > If the answer is a: or b:, what could be done to improve the > situation. IMHO, those are OK, and you shouldn't need anything else. J. --