Re: [opensuse] Hardware req. for server?

Russell Jones wrote:

What packages do you have installed? Or if the list's too long, how
many?


I think the total install was about 1.6G, but I don't know how many
packages - is there an easy way to look it up?

rpm -ql | wc -l

696 packages.

Quite. I think something like Debian 3.1 is better suited to this job..
If it's just running as a firewall (and not, say, an HTTP proxy
server), swapping won't be an issue.

Absolutely. And I agree that other distros could well be better suited -
it's purely a technical management issue of sticking to one distro.

However, I'd find the slowness when adding new packages (bridging
tools, say) irritating.

Agreed, it is - but fortunately, a firewall/gateway is very stable. In
our case, it really does just two things - firewall and NAT router.
I've kept it up to date with the latest 2.4 series kernels and such,
but that's all done by hand anyway.

This machine is meant to replace our current firewall/gateway which
is an ancient 486DX2 with 24M running suse 7.1. It's doing perfectly
fine, but we want to upgrade to a more recent suse version.

I guess it'd be nice to have some of the newer kernel features. Packet
filtering tables have changed a bit over the last few releases of
Linux,

Yeah. A new requirement is also to have the machine run an automatic
ISDN dial backup, which the old 486 could easily do, but as we will be
opening the box anyway, it seemed an opportune moment to upgrade to
10.2.


/Per Jessen, Zürich

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