Rusty Russell wrote: > > If their firewall reboots and is running iptables and thus Linux: How > > long will it be down? > > 120 seconds to reboot with a fixed kernel...
More like 20 seconds with a standard modular kernel for firewall boxes with a slimmed OS running on commodity hardware.. With a truly boot speed optimized system you can get down to about 10 seconds for a iptables based firewall from power on to running.. Regards Henrik
