I work for a county hospital, so we don't get much money for equipment. So, a couple of years ago, when we out-grew our old firewall, I was forced to come up with a firewall solution for little or no money. So I took a spare pc and set it up with IPCop. We still use IPCop today, except now it is on a P4 2.4GHz pc with 1GB of ram. It services 600 devices that connect to the internet. I did have to make a few customizations for it, especially with the content filtering, since we have groups of ppl that need to hit only a few sites and nothing else. It has done a great job and the load rarely gets above 35%.
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I work for a county hospital, so we don't get much money for equipment. So, a couple of years ago, when we out-grew our old firewall, I was forced to come up with a firewall solution for little or no money. So I took a spare pc and set it up with IPCop. We still use IPCop today, except now it is on a P4 2.4GHz pc with 1GB of ram. It services 600 devices that connect to the internet. I did have to make a few customizations for it, especially with the content filtering, since we have groups of ppl that need to hit only a few sites and nothing else. It has done a great job and the load rarely gets above 35%.