On 5/10/05, Ed Stover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > S t i n g r a y wrote: > > i want to replace my microsoft based firewall with a > > freebsd based firewall + proxy + NAt server based on > > ipfw , with internet users approx upto 800-1000 > > simaltanious . i already have the internet link + > > hardware to support it , > > do you guys think ipfw + squid with freebsd will be > > able to handle such loads ? > > > > > > thanks > > > > > > *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Stingray *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ > > > > Yes very much so. At a local college they have over 700 PCs surfing the > net constintly through a P3 700Mhz 512MB Ram and 10Gb HDD. The machine > is running FreeBSD 4.5, squid, squidGuard, ipfw, natd. Transparent > content filtering and nat. Simple sweet and fast...
I use FreeBSD 5 STABLE as a Router with IPFW, DUMMYNET, Squid, DansGuardian and Bind as a forwarding DNS cache for 100 users. All this is running on an old PIII 500Mhz with 128MB ram and 20GB HDD. 100 users may not be much but I guess with more RAM The FreeBSD box well handle more clients. I only use the BOX to test FreeBSD 5 performance for future plans and so far it rocks except for a few problems (sure thats what STABLE is for). Ed, can you please tell me more about "Transparent content filtering". Sounds intresting -- Kind regards Abu Khaled _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
