[geeks] Firewalls...

[Chris Byrne]

David,

As long as you don't put more than 5 pci cards in you are generally OK. Some
motherboards can handle six reliably, some cant. Of course it depends on
your MoBo and the overall composition of your hardware and software.

That's the thing about PC hardware that makes it so difficult to properly
support. There are so many variables, different configuations of hardware
and software etc... that knowing all of the possible issues is essentially
impossible.

And then of course we also get back inot the PCI bus bandwidth inadequacies
issue.

Chris Byrne

-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of David Cantrell
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 17:02
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] Firewalls...


On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:49:56PM -0600, Clay Mellender wrote:

> Actually, the IP Chains and IP masquerading built into linux is very
> robust. I have been using it for years, and it performs very well, even
> on a 486 with 20 Mb of ram. Ping times are very good, and with some of
> the package enhancements there are some very powerfull features.

I'm not denying that - in fact, I do the same.  But I am wary about trying
to run too many interfaces on Linux, simply because PC hardware is a bit
crap.

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