Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 05:10:01 +0300 From: Abu Khaled <khaled.abu@gmail.com> To: estover@nativenerds.com Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: heavy load proxy+nat server with ipfw ? Message-ID: <a64c109e0505091910335cde60@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <42801421.5050800@nativenerds.com> References: <20050509053652.16648.qmail@web51108.mail.yahoo.com> <42801421.5050800@nativenerds.com>
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On 5/10/05, Ed Stover <estover@nativenerds.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > *=BA=A4., =B8=B8,.=A4=BA*=A8=A8=A8*=A4 Stingray *=BA=A4., =B8=B8,.=A4= =BA*=A8=A8*=A4 > > >=20 > 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... I use FreeBSD 5 STABLE as a Router with IPFW, DUMMYNET, Squid, DansGuardian and Bind as a forwarding DNS cache for 100 users. All this is running on an old PIII 500Mhz with 128MB ram and 20GB HDD. 100 users may not be much but I guess with more RAM The FreeBSD box well handle more clients. I only use the BOX to test FreeBSD 5 performance for future plans and so far it rocks except for a few problems (sure thats what STABLE is for). Ed, can you please tell me more about "Transparent content filtering". Sounds intresting --=20 Kind regards Abu Khaled
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