Rikky Taylor wrote:
> I was after some general advice. I need to setup a routing firewall with 3
> interfaces, moderate traffic and a fair amount of NAT'ing in the rules.
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> Given identical modern server hardware would I expect a performance difference
> between an OpenBSD/PF setup and a Linux/IPTables one?
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> Rikky
Either will work fine so long as you purchase good NICs and avoid
cutting-edge (untested) hardware. The only things Linux does noticeably
better is:
* Dealing with SMP
* Dealing with lot's and lot's of RAM
* Dealing with huge file-systems
None of those things are needed for simple firewalls.
Brad
