Velociraptor 1100 questions and other newbie questions

[tsmalmbe]

Hi, I'm new to IPCOP, so I'm gonna start with a few questions. I've bought an Velociraptor 1100 on ebay thinking it was a working firewall, but it seems that it is only the hardware. So I decided to have a look at IPCOP.

Anyway, here goes:

1) What kind of thruput can I expect on a VR1000, assuming normal SPI firewall functionality?
2) What addons are recommended?
3) If I install a proxy, will that affect my overall thruput for let's say FTP-transfers?
4) My needs are as follows: SPI firewall, a proxy+authentication for my "public" WLAN, authentication for services in the DMZ, antivirus, email and messenger application-level filtering. Is this possible, and what would the recommended addons be?
5) Can IPCOP server as a syslog server for my backend?
6) Can I somehow make use of larger disks than20GB? For proxy-data or.. anything?

[tsmalmbe]

a more general ipcop question: with the 4 interfaces + can create red/orange/green zones, right?

[tsmalmbe]

bump?

[Davesworld]

Oh sorry, what speed is the 1100 clocked at? That will have some effect. Also none of us has maxed out one of these units since we all have connections below 50mbs, way below. Some addons will drop the max throughput. The thing you really have to watch is memory, snort uses over 90MB per monitored interface, proxy will use a bit if it can and addons may also tax it. These units can take a gig of ram using the latest flashrom which you need to run IPCop anyway because of ext3 support and the 2.4 and newer kernel.

[tsmalmbe]

What spec should the memory be?