In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Chris
 Bullock" writes:

>can the soekris handle being an internal firewall at 100mb/s?  I have heard
>that CF cards can not handle all the reads/writes at this rate, can someone
>verify this for me.

The CF card would not get involved at all.

>Also, I have heard that the bus for these appliances
>are not optimized to operate at LAN speeds, can you verify or elaborate on
>that as well.  We plan to replace our OpenBSD pc firewalls/routers with
>soekris boxes assuming they can do the job.

You probably want to wait until we know more about the 5501, the 4801
seems to top out around 50Mbit/sec, what I have seen of the 5501 it
has much more power, but just howmuch remains to be seen.

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