Greetings,
I have had a Freebsd firewall (Older computer with (1) 3com 10Mb ethernet PCI card, and (1) 3 com 10/100 Mb ethernet PCI card). The firewall croaked on me (motherboard died). As a quick fix, I plugged in a Linksys BEFSX41.
My Question is, should I build a new Freebsd firewall or just continue using the Linksys ? Throughput and security are my concern. I can have up to 20 machines on the LAN at one time
using the internet, so traffic throughput is a factor.
You should use the Linksys if you are comfortable with it. It does use less electricity.
If you are really concerned with security and perforance, I recommend at least 500 MHz and 256 MB RAM. I have used Intel/3Com cards and both are reliable. I recommend using PF though.
I am working on a replacement firewall right now. I am using a Sun Ultra 5 (360MHz) with a quad ethernet card. It will be running OpenBSD and PF.
I may using FreeBSD though, because I want to use ntop and ntop does not work on OpenBSD.
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