Joe S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. > > Any thoughts?
Well, I have successfully run my Ultra5 (270ghz) as a natting firewall with caching dns, apache, ices, mysql, php(6 dynamic sites) sendmail w/auth smtp (also for the 6 domains) and never saw problems or bottlenecks. I ran it with the hme($ext_if on dsl), and a couple of xl's and was totally happy with it. It moved only a couple months ago to get replaced with 3.7-current on an x86 to do some java/mod_jk bits, but after that's done, 3.8-current will probably go on it and it will resume its place in the corner. Building /usr/src is normally something started before a 9pm movie on this box with the new binaries done for a morning reboot... HTH -- byr0n
