The purpose of this section is to give you the hardware requirements for deploying the Honeywall CDROM. Please submit all bugs/corrections for this documentation or the Honeywall CDROM to our Bugzilla Server.

Last Modified: 16 November, 2006

3. Requirements

1. Overview
2. CPU
3. Memory
4. Hard Drive
5. Network Interface Card

3.1 Overview
Since Roo is based on Fedora Core 3, it has the same hardware requirements and support as a standard Fedora Core 3 installation. The following should be considered the minimum recommended hardware baseline for running a successfull Honeywall.

3.2 CPU
Intel x_86 Pentium class CPU (or better) - Also supports earlier CPUs (such as Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, and including AMD and VIA variants). Upon installation the SMP kernel will be selected and installed if multiple CPUs are detected

3.3 Memory
256MB (bare minimum) 512MB (recommended) - More memory is usually better depending on how active your Honeywall is. This is especially true now that the data analysis interface Walleye uses a database.

3.4 Hard Drive
Base install with Honeywall functionality is around 550MB. For testing purposes, you need a minimum of 6GB hard drive. For production purposes, you need a minimum of 10GB hard drive. Support is available for most IDE hard disks setups as well many popular SCSI disks/controllers. However, the Honeywall does not support SATA drives. Below is a list of most of the supported SCSI controllers:

3w-9xxx                 initio                  sata_sis
3w-xxxx                 ips                     sata_svw
a100u2w                 libata                  sata_sx4
aacraid                 megaraid                sata_uli
aha152x                 osst                    sata_via
aha1542                 ppa                     sata_vsc
aic79xx                 qla1280                 scsi_mod
aic7xxx                 qla2322                 scsi_transport_fc
aic7xxx_old             qla2xxx                 scsi_transport_spi
ata_piix                qla6312                 sd_mod
atp870u                 qla6322                 sg
BusLogic                qlogicfas408            sr_mod
fdomain                 qlogicfas               st
gdth                    qlogicisp               sym53c8xx_2
ide-scsi                sata_nv                 tmscsim
imm                     sata_promise
in2000                  sata_sil

3.5 Network Interface Cards
You need a minimum of two Network Interface Cards. You will need three cards if you want the ability for remote management or remote logging, including the use of the Walleye interface. We HIGHLY recommend you have a 3rd NIC. Below is a list of most of the supported NICs:

3c501           de600           hamachi         ppp_deflate     sungem_phy
3c503           de620           hp100           ppp_generic     sunhme
3c505           depca           hp              pppoe           tg3
3c507           dgrs            hp-plus         pppox           tlan
3c509           dl2k            lance           ppp_synctty     tun
3c515           e100            lp486e          r8169           typhoon
3c59x           e2100           mii             s2io            via-rhine
8139cp          eepro100        natsemi         sb1000          via-velocity
8139too         eepro           ne2k-pci        seeq8005        wd
82596           eexpress        ne              sis900          yellowfin
8390            epic100         netconsole      slhc            znet
ac3200          eql             ni52            slip            de2104x
acenic          eth16i          ni65            smc9194         de4x5
amd8111e        ethertap        ns83820         smc-ultra       dmfe
atp             ewrk3           pcnet32         starfire        tulip
b44             fealnx          plip            sundance        winbond-840
cs89x0          forcedeth       ppp_async       sungem          xircom_cb