Re: PII fast enough for firewall

2007-12-22 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 02 December 2007, John Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 15K Mbs connection (up/down) to my house (fiber to the home). > > I have a Buffalo router that connects to my WAN and then one of the LAN > ports on this router connects to my IPCOP firewall that is running on a PII > -- 400 MHz box

Re: PII fast enough for firewall

2007-12-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Dec 4, 2007, at 6:18 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Or OpenBSD. Has a much smaller memory footprint (means less swapping) than linux and perhaps faster as well. Also, since its a firewall, OpenBSD is supposed to be the most secure firewall to which regular people have access. I also found pf

Re: PII fast enough for firewall

2007-12-04 Thread John Hasler
Doug writes: > ...OpenBSD is supposed to be the most secure firewall to which regular > people have access. It's also probably the most secure firewall to which regular people don't have access. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: PII fast enough for firewall

2007-12-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 08:03:20PM +0100, Peter Teunissen wrote: > On 3-dec-2007, at 7:25, Ron Johnson wrote: > >On 12/02/07 22:22, John Schmidt wrote: > >>I have a 15K Mbs connection (up/down) to my house (fiber to the > >>home). > >> > >>I have a Buffalo router that connects to my WAN and then on

Re: "link up" (was Re: PII fast enough for firewall)

2007-12-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/07 16:59, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Dec 3, 2007, at 2:39 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> >> On 12/03/07 16:11, Ralph Katz wrote: >> [snip] >>> >>> Maybe check your NIC. What do you get for this (etch): >>> $ grep 'link up' /var/log/dmesg >>>

Re: "link up" (was Re: PII fast enough for firewall)

2007-12-03 Thread David Brodbeck
On Dec 3, 2007, at 2:39 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/07 16:11, Ralph Katz wrote: [snip] Maybe check your NIC. What do you get for this (etch): $ grep 'link up' /var/log/dmesg Maybe the ancient PII has an ancient ethernet card! My (just pur

"link up" (was Re: PII fast enough for firewall)

2007-12-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/07 16:11, Ralph Katz wrote: [snip] > > Maybe check your NIC. What do you get for this (etch): > $ grep 'link up' /var/log/dmesg > > Maybe the ancient PII has an ancient ethernet card! My (just purchased) system running kernel 2.6.22 descri

Re: PII fast enough for firewall

2007-12-03 Thread David Brodbeck
On Dec 2, 2007, at 8:22 PM, John Schmidt wrote: Hi, I have a 15K Mbs connection (up/down) to my house (fiber to the home). I have a Buffalo router that connects to my WAN and then one of the LAN ports on this router connects to my IPCOP firewall that is running on a PII -- 400 MHz box wi

Re: PII fast enough for firewall

2007-12-03 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/03/2007 02:03 PM, Peter Teunissen wrote: > > On 3-dec-2007, at 7:25, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 12/02/07 22:22, John Schmidt wrote: >>> When I do a speed test from my box behind my IPCOP firewall, I get >>> about 10K >>> Mbs up/down. >

Re: PII fast enough for firewall

2007-12-03 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 3-dec-2007, at 7:25, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/02/07 22:22, John Schmidt wrote: Hi, I have a 15K Mbs connection (up/down) to my house (fiber to the home). I have a Buffalo router that connects to my WAN and then one of the LAN ports on th

Re: PII fast enough for firewall

2007-12-03 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 02 December 2007, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 09:22:44PM -0700, John Schmidt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a 15K Mbs connection (up/down) to my house (fiber to the home). > > ---^^^ > I've never seen this. Do you mean 15 Gbps or what? > > Regards, > Andrei

Re: PII fast enough for firewall

2007-12-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/02/07 22:22, John Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 15K Mbs connection (up/down) to my house (fiber to the home). > > I have a Buffalo router that connects to my WAN and then one of the LAN ports > on this router connects to my IPCOP firewall

Re: PII fast enough for firewall

2007-12-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 09:22:44PM -0700, John Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 15K Mbs connection (up/down) to my house (fiber to the home). ---^^^ I've never seen this. Do you mean 15 Gbps or what? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well eno