[rescue] [OT?] Linux on a SS2

[Mike Hebel]

On Saturday, February 14, 2004, at 11:44 AM, Patrick Giagnocavo 
+1.717.201.3366 wrote:

> 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.

How hard is it to convert the rules from IPF to PF?  Is IPNAT the same 
as it always was?

Just curious.

Mike Hebel