26 Jun
2003
26 Jun
'03
15:11
If all it is doing is being a gateway then anything from a 486 up will do All depends on what you actually want it to do. We have a hand built Single P3 1G with 512MB ram and 2 18GB SCSI drives. It acts as filtering proxy for 350 workstations, e-mail server ( including real time virus scanning of e-mails ) it's our intranet and web server and our global Primary DNS. Never breaks a sweat. If you want something well built then buy an old Compaq or Dell Server off EBAY. Something like a Dell Poweredge 2300 with a single P3 500 would be good, and you can add a second processor and play with raid if it has the PERC controler. RAID controllers are always on EBAY. Rob.