[Hampshire] Slightly OT - "Firewall Server"

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Author: Rob Malpass
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Subject: [Hampshire] Slightly OT - "Firewall Server"
Hi all



A simple question: What is a firewall server? I've not heard of this term
before.



Is it:

a) A pretty low spec server that's not got much processing power beyond that
required to run ipcop or something similar?

b) Something else



I anticipate it will have more than one NIC but if I was looking for a
really low spec server (or a few of them of identical physical dimensions)
as I am at the moment, what's to stop me buying [1]?



Cheers

Rob



[1]
http://www.speedie.co.uk/rackmount-pentium-4-c-25_37_83/cyberguard-fs250-500
-firewall-server-p-93