From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 10 01:52:51 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 136AB16A4EB for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 01:52:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.nativenerds.com (host-70-0-111-24.midco.net [24.111.0.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DE3143D31 for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 01:52:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from estover@nativenerds.com) Received: from [192.168.1.89] (host-133-35-230-24.midco.net [24.230.35.133]) j4A27gtl052718; Mon, 9 May 2005 20:07:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from estover@nativenerds.com) Message-ID: <42801421.5050800@nativenerds.com> Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 19:53:37 -0600 From: Ed Stover Organization: Native Nerds User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050503) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: S t i n g r a y References: <20050509053652.16648.qmail@web51108.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050509053652.16648.qmail@web51108.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on mail.nativenerds.com cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: heavy load proxy+nat server with ipfw ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: estover@nativenerds.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 01:52:51 -0000 S t i n g r a y wrote: > 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*¨¨*¤ > Yes very much so. At a local college they have over 700 PCs surfing the net constintly through a P3 700Mhz 512MB Ram and 10Gb HDD. The machine is running FreeBSD 4.5, squid, squidGuard, ipfw, natd. Transparent content filtering and nat. Simple sweet and fast...