On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Shannon Roddy wrote: > Same here. However, have you ever tried running it as a firewall on a > gigabit link with a complex ruleset and about 400 hosts behind it, > plus NAT? The benchmarks I saw predicted poor performance on OpenBSD > for this type of application.
What did your real world performance numbers show? > However, when you want a secure > firewall, OpenBSD rocks. I like the idea of the transparent bridge > with a firewall ruleset. Totally invisible! Very true.... i tried to do it a few years ago on linux, but it wasn't ready for primetime yet. I think the ebtables stuff has matured since then, though. ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
