[geeks] Firewalls...

[David Cantrell]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:51:57PM -0000, Will Mc Donald wrote:

> PC based solution with a couple of Quad Ethernet cards, Gig ethernet cards,
> Ultra 160 SCSI and a gig or two of RAM could probably be build for about 3k
> using quality components throughout.
> 
> So is it worth it? Does anyone know how stable the latest FW-1 is on linux?

Perhaps more importantly, does anyone know how stable Linux is with that
many ethernet interfaces?  I don't, and I wouldn't trust it, mainly
because of the PC's sucky interrupt model.

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