Don't know how it compares to ipchains..
Here are some kind of old performance comparisons.
http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.htmle
And some other links..
http://www.openbsd.org/press.html
I imagine FreeBSD would do pretty well, but it is not audited yet, does not have
the secure defaults, and you need to compile a new kernel to run ipfilter.
acs
On 14-Jun-00 Ronneil Camara wrote:
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>> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 2:22 PM
>> To: Jeremy
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>> why bother..
>>
>> use openbsd and ipfilter/ipnat..
>>
>
> Does this really outperform linux's ipchains in kernel 2.2.16? How about
> compared with freebsd?
>
> nie
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