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Old 05-24-2002
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If you're going to run a firewall, the ideal situation (assuming that this box can be dedicated to only that) would be to turn off everything. Allow console access only, no remote services, just IP forwarding.
We are waiting on a new Compaq server to be made and delivered which is gonna leave me with the Proliant 3000 with dual PII 400's, 384 RAM, 3 9GB hd's > With "ONE" purpose!!! Be the Bouncer!!!

I also have the previous server. An old P1, junker. Would this be a good candidate for a mail gate/server to filter/scan all incoming E-mails????
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Old 05-28-2002
It really depends on the volume of email bouncing through...
It may be enough if you are scanning a few emails an hour without attachments, but if you're handling a few hundred or more per hour with heavy attachments (if you're doing virus scanning, zip files can be murder - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/20322.html This is very easy to create one of these files using /dev/zero, dd, and zip...), you may get some big performance hits...
 
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