From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 21 15:46:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maile.telia.com (maile.telia.com [194.22.190.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C049A37B418 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 15:46:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by maile.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fALNk8G05532 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 00:46:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA17293 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 00:46:08 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 16940 invoked by uid 1001); 21 Nov 2001 23:46:06 -0000 Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 00:46:06 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: shanon loveridge Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Firewall Message-ID: <20011121234606.GA14744@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: shanon loveridge , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011121233809.94395.qmail@web14309.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011121233809.94395.qmail@web14309.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:38:09PM +0000, shanon loveridge wrote: > Ok I am thinking about setting up a P120 as a firewall > for my home network and I was wondering if the > computer will be fast enough for this or if there will > be a noticable drop in performance. Also would OpenBSD > be better suited for this as it is ment to focus on > security. Unless you have a really fast connection to the outside world a P120 should be more than enough. (Just FYI I am using an old 386SX/33 as a firewall and it works just fine.) I don't think OpenBSD would be better for this. Probably just as good but not better. Their focus on security is primarily in making sure that there are no security problems with the OS itself. This does not mean that they have a better firewall. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message