Re: [Efw-user] Consultation over Endian Community FW Capabilities

[Pedro M. S. O. <pms...@gm...>]

Hello
Yep you may use it no problem, just don't forget to use the pae kernel 
to have the full 4GB support.
Also filtering on layer 7 (proxy http, email filtering) with antivirus 
may be a bit heavy on cpu and disk usage, you should pay attention to that.
IPS (snort) may be heavy with all those connections so use with care, 
specify the rules that are really needed if any.

I doubt you can do anything with 200.000 connections and 4Mbps 
connection so you should revise your numbers.
For a setup like that your also should have enterprise grade hw, the 
price is almost the same for a

Basic Xeon
8GB ram
2x250 GB sata disk (RAID 1)
2-4 network cards enterprise level, don't use realtek chips, broadcom is 
not that nice either, go with intel e1000 or newer models

If you really have the numbers you described you shouldn't have a 
problem in setting a low end server for it.


Regards,
Pedro Oliveira

On 11/12/2013 05:59 PM, Jose Luis Marin Perez wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
>
> I have 8 servers (6 Linux and 2 Windows) where I have the following 
> services:
>
> Mail services (Approximately 9,000 email accounts)
> Web hosting services (Approximately 100 Web pages)
> FTP Service (Approximately 100 accounts)
>
> In addition
>
> 4Mbps internet access
> 100Mbps Internal Network
> We would need approximately 200,000 concurrent connections.
>
> My question would be if the Endian FW Community could support these 
> features.
>
> The Endian FW Community will install it on a server with the following 
> characteristics:
>
> CPU Core I3
> 4GB RAM
> 500GB HDD
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Regards
>
> Jose Luis
>
>
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