Where can I get Darren Reed's IPFilter and/or informations about ?
Wolfgang Rau
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On Mon, 17 May 1999, Paul D. Robertson wrote:
> On Mon, 17 May 1999, Greg Bastian wrote:
>
> > As a more specific question for any Linux users out there, would a NAT based
> > firewall/router to handle a 128KBit ISDN connection running on a Pentium 233
> > with 96 MB RAM handle the load ?
>
> Easily. You'll get less latency with a 2.2.5 or higher kernel for Linux in
> general (200ms/connection improvement under some circumstances) - this is
> most important for Web servers, but applicable to almost anything dealing
> with Win* or some BSD clients - NAT may be an exception,
> I'm not sure if you're reassembling frags.)
>
> I've just started looking at 2.2.9 as a candidate for deployment, but am not
> at the point where I could offer an opinion on a particular 2.2.x
> kernel. If you're using RedHat 5.2, you'll need to do the RPM upgrades
> necessary for 2.2.x kernels first.
>
> 128Kb/s of bandwidth isn't all that much though. I haven't looked
> specificly at doing NAT vs. IP masquerading under Linux. I know the FreeBSD
> folks have had a NAT daemon to play with for a while. Also, Darren
> Reed's excellent IPFilter runs on *BSD, Solaris, HP/UX, and the pre-2.2
> Linux kernels (up to about 2.0.35).
>
> Paul
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