On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 13:28:28 -0700 Joe S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake: > Is anyone on the list running an Ultra 5 as firewall? I would like to > move my firewall from an overpowered P4-3GHz box to a Sun Ultra 5 360MHz. > > My main concern is wondering if the Ultra 5 is slow enough to become a > bottleneck from one interface to another interface. However, I know some > of you run Soekris boxen and 486's for firewalls, so I may be just fine. > > Any thoughts?
I dunno know about a Sun 360Mhz, but I just set up a AMD 350Mhz with two 100MB cards and can filter at about 70Mb/sec (9,000 pkt / sec) across it (100Mb networks). This is with two FA311 cards. If your firewalling an internet connection it should be more than fine. Turning on PF caused a bit of a drop (to the above stats) but after that not much seemed to phase it. I did some tests turning on and off quick / scrub / etc / etc if anyone is interested. * tests done using iperf, netstat and two cross over cables. hitech stuff here :) -- Bill Chmura Director of Internet Technology Explosivo ITG Wolcott, CT p: 860.621.8693 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w. http://www.explosivo.com
