On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, istene wrote: > I need to setup security for a net of 130 clients. I will use Gibraltar > and have, a debian-based distro and i plan to configure 2 or 3 firewalls.
Why the multiple firewalls? If you've got multiple links, you're better off channel bonding or something else to tidy it up, otherwise doing routing tables internally is going to be a stone drag. > Does any1 have experience of using linux-based firewalls with so many > clients (i will use NAT and have 13 static ips) ? If yes, how's the hardware Hardware shouldn't be an issue. Any PCI-based system with decent 100BaseTX cards (avoid anything RTL-8139, the buffers aren't big enough - I like 3Com 3c59x or EE100) should be able to handle full-rate transfers. The bottleneck is going to be in your external connection. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For Account Management (unsubscribe, get/change password, etc) Please go to: http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
