Roger Neth Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> and it was okay on response. Then I redid my pf.conf with the tutorial
> by Jeff Hansteen posted a couple of days ago.

It's Peter, not Jeff, but I'm very happy to hear you found the tutorial
useful. 

> Wow! what a difference. My DEC firewall is faster than snot loading up
> web pages. 

PF is fast, with very low overhead, in my experience, and the most
user(admin) friendly firewall I've ever encounter.  I'm a bit surprised
you got a noticeable speedup by following the rather basic advice in the
tutorial. Then again, just keeping it all simple may help in that respect.

-- 
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
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