[geeks] Firewalls...

[Clay Mellender]

Actually, the IP Chains and IP masquerading built into linux is very
robust. I have been using it for years, and it performs very well, even
on a 486 with 20 Mb of ram. Ping times are very good, and with some of
the package enhancements there are some very powerfull features.


Clay


David Cantrell wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:51:57PM -0000, Will Mc Donald wrote:
> 
> > PC based solution with a couple of Quad Ethernet cards, Gig ethernet cards,
> > Ultra 160 SCSI and a gig or two of RAM could probably be build for about 3k
> > using quality components throughout.
> >
> > So is it worth it? Does anyone know how stable the latest FW-1 is on linux?
> 
> Perhaps more importantly, does anyone know how stable Linux is with that
> many ethernet interfaces?  I don't, and I wouldn't trust it, mainly
> because of the PC's sucky interrupt model.
> 
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