On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
# > Am I looking at the wrong site - has TIS given up on the Linux community?
#
# TIS gauntlet has never afaik been available for Linux. TIS also provide on
# a sort of free basis a set of handy firewall tools though. That I suspect
# is what the FAQ is referring to.
The FWTK (which is what we are talking about, "Fire Wall Took Kit") is
actually a set of proxies for telnet, ftp, www and a few others.
FWTK is fast. Very fast. On the network that I manage, I wasn't able to
get SOCKS5 to keep up with 100 win95 boxes hitting web pages (remember,
netscape & ie both open up multiple connections to pull images) on a P133
w/64MB of ram. Clients would receive time-out errors, connections would
drop, etc... This may have been a configuration error on my part, but the
easiest solution was to fall back to FWTK.
FWTK is able to keep up on the same box without even breaking a load
average of 2. Inetd has to be told to allow so many connection per minute,
but once set it really flies.
I ended up running both proxies on the box. FWTK for the http-gw stuff,
and SOCKS5 for everything else. Thank god for autoproxy.pac's :)
G'day!
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