Linux netfilter/iptables firewall : impacts on performances ?

From: Philippe (philou-666_at_caramail.com)
Date: 04/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:35:55 +0200

I am looking for results of performance studies on the impact of the use
of the Linux netfilter/iptables firewall, typicaly a comparison of
bandwidth and delay time with and without the firewall for several types
of traffic (HTTP, FTP, UDP, etc.).
For the moment, I only need a local firewall on a Linux box (Mandrake
9.2) with only one network interface (FastEthernet).

Thanks.

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