On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 19:15:29 -0400 Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake: > On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 13:28:28 -0700 > Joe S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake: > > > Is anyone on the list running an Ultra 5 as firewall? I would like to > > move my firewall from an overpowered P4-3GHz box to a Sun Ultra 5 360MHz. > > > > My main concern is wondering if the Ultra 5 is slow enough to become a > > bottleneck from one interface to another interface. However, I know some > > of you run Soekris boxen and 486's for firewalls, so I may be just fine. > > > > Any thoughts? > > I dunno know about a Sun 360Mhz, but I just set up a AMD 350Mhz with > two 100MB cards and can filter at about 70Mb/sec (9,000 pkt / sec) > across it (100Mb networks). This is with two FA311 cards. If your > firewalling an internet connection it should be more than fine. > Turning on PF caused a bit of a drop (to the above stats) but after > that not much seemed to phase it. I did some tests turning on and off > quick / scrub / etc / etc if anyone is interested. > > * tests done using iperf, netstat and two cross over cables. hitech > stuff here :) >
The stats using PF are those listed above... they were slightly higher before turning on PF.
