[rescue] [OT?] Linux on a SS2

[Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 11:23:51AM -0600, Kay wrote:
> my firewall is a Sun LX with 128megs of ram and a sun QFE with Solaris 8 and
> IPfilter and has served me well since before 1997.. it worked all the way
> from a dialup connection to a T1 connection..
> 
> the LX is struggling now to keep up with IP filter running with NAT and my
> firewall rules. since they upgraded me to a 3Megabit connection both ways ..

Would be interesting to see what OpenBSD's PF would do in terms of
performance - the PF code is considered to use much less CPU than IPF.

--Patrick