Author: Jacqui Caren-home Date: To: hampshire Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Slightly OT - "Firewall Server"
On 07/09/2011 18:30, Rob Malpass wrote: > Hi all
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> A simple question: What is a firewall server? I've not heard of this term before.
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> Is it:
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> a) A pretty low spec server that's not got much processing power beyond that required to run ipcop or something similar?
Could be - we use guruplugs at work as well as a large rackable server box with 8/16 or so ports.
> b) Something else
I use an AMD64x2 system at home but planned to put something "lighter" in front and use wake on lan but hit WOL problems so just suffer the leccy bill instead.
> I anticipate it will have more than one NIC but if I was looking for a really low spec server (or a few of them of identical physical dimensions) as I am at the moment, what's to stop me buying [1]?
$Boss uses guruplugs and thier successors for DSL connectivity but for my home (50Mb cable) link, they are too low powered - for my needs.
