[SunHELP] Solaris as firewall for windows network

[Kurt Huhn]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:58:32 +0100
Predrag Zecevic wrote:

> Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> 
> it is not metter of HW, but Solaris kernel: it is design advantage.
> Regards ;-)
> 

Er, no.  Both were running OpenBSD -current.  Solaris wasn't even in the
mix.  

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