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: 25 May, 2007

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 6, it has the same hardware requirements and support as a standard Fedora Core 6 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).

3.3 Memory
512MB (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 900MB. 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 as well many popular SCSI disks/controllers. SATA drives should be supported but have not yet been thoroughly tested.

3.5 Network Interface Cards
You need a minimum of two Network Interface Cards (one connected to the internal, honeynet network and one connected to the external network/Internet). 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.