Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 02:21, Tom Allison wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> Many of the firewall appliances are considerably slower processors.
> iptable routing doesn't take a lot of RAM or CPU cycles.
>
> What requires more RAM/CPU is going to be DNS caching, DHCP, Squid, VPN --
> All of these can be done with Linux and firewall distributions (ie:
> smoothwall, ipcop)
Wouldn't the DNS, DHCP, DHCP and Squid be on another box anyway?
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