[SunHELP] Solaris as firewall for windows network

[Kurt Huhn]

On Feb 11, 2004, at 12:03 PM, Javier O. Augusto wrote:

>
> IMHO, its useless to setup a machine like an U10 only for a firewall.
> Why not a freebsd or a linux firewall instead?
>

Speaking from experience, the hardware of most PCs can't keep up with 
the abuse that can be tossed at a firewall.  My experience sending 
aggressive nmap scans through a 1.3Ghz celeron running OpenBSD, is that 
the system simply falls down.  A 140Mhz Ultra-1 running OpenBSD, on the 
other hand, performs flawlessly.

Not to start *that* particular holy war, but my experience guides my 
actions in this regard.

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Kurt Huhn
kurt at k-huhn.com