heavy load proxy+nat server with ipfw ?

Ed Stover estover at nativenerds.com
Mon May 9 18:52:51 PDT 2005


S t i n g r a y wrote:
> i want to replace my microsoft based firewall with a
> freebsd based firewall + proxy + NAt server based on
> ipfw , with internet users approx upto 800-1000
> simaltanious . i already have the internet link +
> hardware to support it , 
> do you guys think ipfw + squid with freebsd will be
> able to handle such loads ?
> 
> 
> thanks
>  
> 
> *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Stingray *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤
>             

Yes very much so. At a local college they have over 700 PCs surfing the
net constintly through a P3 700Mhz 512MB Ram and 10Gb HDD. The machine
is running FreeBSD 4.5, squid, squidGuard, ipfw, natd. Transparent
content filtering and nat. Simple sweet and fast...


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