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Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls



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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