Darryl Hoar wrote:
Greetings,
I have had a Freebsd firewall (Older computer with (1) 3com 10Mb ethernet PCI card, and (1) 3 com 10/100 Mb ethernet PCI card). The firewall croaked on me (motherboard died). As a quick fix, I plugged in a Linksys BEFSX41.
My Question is, should I build a new Freebsd firewall or just continue using the Linksys ? Throughput and security are my concern. I can have up to 20 machines on the LAN at one time
using the internet, so traffic throughput is a factor.
Anyway, my inclination is to build a new freebsd firewall, but don't want to do the work if the Linksys is good enough.
Thanks for any ideas or suggestions.
How old are those 3com cards?
I think the most important area to look at is guaging how much packet loss will occur under these high loads. And that in-of-itself might appear differently in one type of traffic and not others, i.e. vpn, ssh, encrypted traffic, ssl. Also, how well and quick a device can handle packet loss can be determined by newer equipment (new linksys router) handling packets that come over the wire verses and older 3com card with aging firmware.
It's a toss up that's hard to make a definative suggestion... unless you can do what Hexren mentioned and pit them against each other. That would be the easiest way to appease your needs.
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