[TriLUG] IPTables throughput limitations?

[Turnpike Man]

My iptables fw at home runs on a 1997 AMD 166 w/ 256mb ram, few GB HD ... and
I'd feel 100% confident about placing a comparable machine in for my corporate
fw serving 40+ people, hosting email and soon to host web applications offering
web services to a couple thousand customers.  However, I do have the luxury
that I will get better hardware than that for my corp fw implementation and I'm
not concerned about it being swamped.  I have to worry about www and db
machines at that point!  I don't know anything about true thru-put of iptables
though.  I can check "top" while doing a download at 360Kb/s (yay RR 3mbit!)
and see 0.0's across the board (as if 1 user download really represents a
load... ).

laters,
David

--- Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org> wrote:
> So my thought? Works fine. :)
> 
> Side Note - the first firewall I was involved with was a pentium 233MMX
> desktop, 64MB RAM, 2GB HDD, 2 10Mb 3Com NICs running RedHat 6.2, ipchains,
> and pmfirewall. Worked fine too. (still in my office at work!)
> 
> HTH



	
		
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