Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

From: Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net)
Date: 07/31/03

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Date: 31 Jul 2003 09:22:23 -0500

    On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 08:30, Rex Chan wrote:
    > On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 08:50:21PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote:
    [snip]
    > The advantage of hardware firewall - most likely speed -
    > specialised hardware to deal with packet processing and the like.

    So if a P2-233 w/ 32MB RAM doesn't handle it, try something faster.

    If a GHz CPU w/ 256B RAM (dirt cheap!!) can't handle a T3 (45Mbps,
    5.6MBps), something is wrong. 

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