On 2006-05-18 11:03, bc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to run 6.1_RELEASE with Packet Filter(PF) configured as > a gateway using 2 identical 10/100 nics, on an old 450mhz > pentium with 256 meg ram and an 8 gig HD. > > In general, should I expect any speed performance issues with > internet access base on the processor, ram and bus speeds of > the MB? Would the PF config cause any speed performance > deficiencies? > > I had same setup as above but with IPF firewall and received > complaints about surfing speed so I put them back on a Linksys > router firewall.
We'd have to see the ruleset to be able to reply in an informed manner. I have seen firewalls doing both filtering & NAT on a system, with almost no overhead at all though. This top output: http://keramida.serverhive.com/pixelshow-top.txt shows that a FreeBSD 5.X system with 256 MB of physical memory is happily filtering the traffic and doing NAT for more than 100 users, while still being 97% idle. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"