Hardware requirements

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In case you bought a Gibraltar Security Gateway, you will find the software pre-installed on your appliance.

 

An additional way is to download the software-version of Gibraltar, which is a Live-CD-System, bootable and running from CD. Using a Hard Disk with your Live-CD-System is not necessary but you can, in most cases this depends on your requirements.

 
For running Gibraltar as a Live-CD-System you will in any case need 2 network interface cards and...

 

Recommended:

 

PC Pentium (>=600 MHz)
>= 256 MB RAM
bootable CD-ROM 32x or better
HDD for bigger log files and email relaying (SMTP proxy)
USB storage media
2 x 100 MBit/s network adapter (best tested: 3COM, Intel or Realtek chip set)

 

Compatibility:

 

Network adapter: all PCI based 10/100 or 1000 MBit/s
Modem: AT standard
USB modem: ACM standard (not tested)
DSL modem: Alcatel USB Speedtouch or any Ethernet modem