Re: [Efw-user] syn-flood prevention?

2015-02-12 Thread Josh Carter
Looks promising. As a pure firewall it should do well, will have to keep an eye on the development of some of the UTM features due later this year. (Squid, IPS, etc) From: Matt Hayes [mailto:domin...@slackadelic.com] Sent: Thursday, 12 February 2015 3:26 AM To: efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Efw-user] syn-flood prevention?

2015-02-10 Thread Josh Carter
+1. Moved from Endian ~12 months ago now. I’ve found ipfire to be close to like for like replacement, with an appropriate level of community and developer support available when needed. Just my 2c. --JC From: Matt Hayes [mailto:domin...@slackadelic.com] Sent: Tuesday, 10 February 2015 3:02

Re: [Efw-user] Bandwidth and Thruput

2013-03-20 Thread Josh Carter
As stated CPU / RAM are your primary concern here. If your CPU usage is high, your throughput will be limited as such. One other consideration for ClamAV is disk speed. The file is downloaded to your EFW disk, scanned by clamav, then passed through to your client. If the disk is slow, that can

Re: [Efw-user] Bandwidth and Thruput

2013-03-20 Thread Josh Carter
This is good info here, but something to watch out for: SKIPMIME image/* video/* audio/* The above line will PREVENT all images, videos and audio from being scanned for viruses. There are obvious security implications with that, and you should evaluate your security requirements before