[Tfug] router/firewall distro

[Chris Mathis]

just a question.. thanks for the info... of course it will be quite a while
till i set it up on my home network...

chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicolas Lopez" <nick@the.glowingmonkey.org>
To: <tfug@tfug.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Tfug] router/firewall distro


> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:03:14PM -0700, Chris Mathis wrote:
> > is it possible to run a router/firewall back through the same lan card
(just
> > a question... i know that you can get a lan card for about 7 bucks right
> > now...) if so what about through-put on that system... also what about
> > putting it on a dx 33 would that have the processing time/power to get
> > things going???
>   Yes you can, you just need to be a little more careful with your
firewall
> rules. As for thoughput, you'll get at best, less than half of the
> NIc/LAN is theoretically capable of.  But even 4Mbit is more than you're
> ever likely to see.
>   Well, that's assuming a PCI NIC. An ISA NIc will probably slow you down.
> As will overly complicated firewall rules.
>
>   - Nick Lopez
>     kimo_sabe@atdot.org
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