Firewall throughput question
Hexren
me at hexren.net
Wed Feb 9 08:54:10 PST 2005
DH> Greetings,
DH> I have had a Freebsd firewall (Older computer with (1) 3com 10Mb
DH> ethernet PCI card, and (1) 3 com 10/100 Mb ethernet PCI card).
DH> The firewall croaked on me (motherboard died). As a quick fix,
DH> I plugged in a Linksys BEFSX41.
DH> My Question is, should I build a new Freebsd firewall or just
DH> continue using the Linksys ? Throughput and security are my
DH> concern. I can have up to 20 machines on the LAN at one time
DH> using the internet, so traffic throughput is a factor.
DH> Anyway, my inclination is to build a new freebsd firewall, but
DH> don't want to do the work if the Linksys is good enough.
DH> Thanks for any ideas or suggestions.
DH> -Darryl
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Many people say, the only way to truly answer the "traffic throughput" question is test the
firewall you have under life conditions and see if it can handle what
the LAN throws at it.
As for security, that has imho more to do with setup than with
hardware used imho. Get hardware cryptographic accelerators if you need
that much and have the money to spent.
Hexren
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