[SunHELP] Solaris as firewall for windows network

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Mon Feb 16 16:18:30 CST 2004


On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 08:29:52PM -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> YMMV, because I've used a 600 MHz PC running Linux as a firewall for a
> company with 120 users on a T1 for several years with zero unscheduled
> downtime.  Scheduled downtime has involved maybe 5 or 6 reboots for kernel
> updates since late 2001.
> My experience says that a PC is just fine.

The high-end Cisco PIX is a 1Ghz x86 machine.  

Bill

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bill bradford
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austin, texas



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