On Oct 7, 2005, at 4:28 PM, Joe S wrote:
Is anyone on the list running an Ultra 5 as firewall? I would like
to move my firewall from an overpowered P4-3GHz box to a Sun Ultra
5 360MHz.
My main concern is wondering if the Ultra 5 is slow enough to
become a bottleneck from one interface to another interface.
However, I know some of you run Soekris boxen and 486's for
firewalls, so I may be just fine.
There's no way for anyone to know without describing your
throughput. That said, I've run OpenBSD/PF firewalls on old Sparc
IPX (SS2) boxes. An Ultra 5 should certainly handle quite a bit,
considering a Soekris can handle a T1.
P.S. Not to rant, but I've never understood why people ask these
questions on the list. Why not just setup a test network and run
iperf against it?
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Jason Dixon
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net
