On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 12:07:39PM -0400, Evan D. Hoffman wrote:

> I've setup a bridging firewall with the code from bridge.sourceforge.net and
> it seems to be working well (yay).  We currently have it setup in our office
> in front of our lan and it has been running for about 2 days now with no
> problems that I can tell.  We plan to put this up in front of our webserver
> at the hosting facility, but before doing that I want to make sure nothing
> is wrong.  I.e., downtime == bad.  How can I test the setup to be relatively
> sure it'll be ok at the datacenter?  How long should I leave it running on
> our lan before declaring it ok for production?  a week?  2 weeks?  a month?
> I'd like to have it at our host ASAP, but don't want to put it in if it's
> going to break.

Well, I'm just a programmer, don't ask me that question :)

I use the bridge-firewall code in several places myself, without
any adverse effects so far.  Some of the firewalls run bridge-nf
versions old as 0.0.2, all without problems.


> Also, the machine we're using is a P3 1GHz with 256 megs ram and a 40 gig
> hard drive.  I assume this should be able to handle ~ 1 Mbps traffic OK?  

"Total overkill."


cheers,
Lennert
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