From owner-freebsd-security Tue Sep 22 02:13:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA23241 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 02:13:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from buddy.sovlink.ru (buddy.sovlink.ru [194.186.12.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA22822 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 02:10:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alla@sovlink.ru) Received: from sovlink.ru (punk.sovlink.ru [194.186.12.133]) by buddy.sovlink.ru (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA13867; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:10:03 +0400 (MSD) Message-ID: <360768D0.96FB0D0A@sovlink.ru> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:07:28 +0400 From: Alla Bezroutchko X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: ru,en 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tomaz Borstnar wrote: > about perfomance? Also what kind of machine would you suggest for firewall? > As fast as possible CPU, 256MB RAM and plenty of disk? I am running ipfw on Pentium 100 with 32 Mb of RAM and 1GB SCSI. This box also runs squid, SOCKS and other stuff and acts as a firewall and proxy for a network with about 40 users. Didn't have any trouble with perfomance. Processor load has never been higher than 5%. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message