From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 9 05:36:53 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2994616A4E6 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 05:36:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web51108.mail.yahoo.com (web51108.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.38.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A1CA143D79 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 05:36:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fasi_74@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 16650 invoked by uid 60001); 9 May 2005 05:36:52 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=birOwJzOPdoclADlHvm4/0KsBWOSjZWRhNgqPXvIOde85uKUL3PqVBlbhL7QIDz0tM8bZNHHkgY54GeX8IQg0uf2Y/QRfPGg7Dru6BbPB0QhDwZFdaGmvVOWZ0x5ilVJsyqK5JmJRzrNG+mHXbLJxw/7PNiwurjVAXAaNdz/L7o= ; Message-ID: <20050509053652.16648.qmail@web51108.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [202.141.239.6] by web51108.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 08 May 2005 22:36:51 PDT Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 22:36:51 -0700 (PDT) From: S t i n g r a y To: FreeBSD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: heavy load proxy+nat server with ipfw ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 05:36:53 -0000 i want to replace my microsoft based firewall with a freebsd based firewall + proxy + NAt server based on ipfw , with internet users approx upto 800-1000 simaltanious . i already have the internet link + hardware to support it , do you guys think ipfw + squid with freebsd will be able to handle such loads ? thanks *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Stingray *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/