From owner-freebsd-security Mon Sep 28 08:48:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA28533 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 08:48:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA28527 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 08:48:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from bergelmir.ifi.uio.no (2602@bergelmir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.65.172]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id RAA07772; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 17:48:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by bergelmir.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 17:48:35 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Tomaz Borstnar Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: performance comparision of ipfilter and ipfw References: <199809220726.AAA07687@hub.freebsd.org> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 28 Sep 1998 17:48:35 +0200 In-Reply-To: Tomaz Borstnar's message of "Tue, 22 Sep 1998 09:26:12 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 11 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id IAA28529 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tomaz Borstnar writes: > Anyone did testing on performance of IPFW and IPFilter? From feature list > it looks like IPfilter has better interface and more features, but what > about perfomance? Also what kind of machine would you suggest for firewall? > As fast as possible CPU, 256MB RAM and plenty of disk? A 486DX2/66 with snappy NICs, a 100 MB disk and 16 MB RAM oughta be enough. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message