Montana Quiring montanaq@gmail.com wrote:
Tim,
Thanks for all the tips. I should add this this box will need to handle as many as 400 connections.
99.9% of the users won't know how to change their MAC address. The MAC filter is basically just to get their attention. :)
Heheh. You're quite welcome. You're right, the filtering will take care of most people. As for number of connections, I think you would still do fine with modest hardware. They do have a sizing guide on the site, based on expected bandwidth and some other features used such as VPN. I would add that memory requirements should take add-on apps into account, for example you can set up snort and squid there too from available packages. Still, you can scale nicely if you can use a slightly-less-old system.