> person-high racks of equipment used for firewalling. With the firewall > capabilities in a 2.4 kernel, combined with technology like Hipersockets and > Gigabit OSA Express, it should be feasible to run a capable Linux firewall > in a couple of LPARs (or guests under VM). Obviously this makes more sense
I would be very suprised if it was. A firewall tends to be very cpu and latency critical rather than about bulk I/O throughput. Maybe it works but I'd like to see the evidence. > Speaking generally, network infrastructure is another good candidate. WINS > (via Samba), DNS, DHCP and friends might benefit from better availability > that S/390 can provide. Another way of thinking about some of this which is somewhat related to the above is think of Linux on S/390 as an enabler to run large amounts of traditional unix code on the mainframe. It vastly broadens the software portfolio, it depends if there is anything in the catalogue (so to speak) that you want
