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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
