[geeks] Firewalls...

[Keith Campbell]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Mc Donald" <wmcdonald at orctel.co.uk>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 04:43 AM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Firewalls...


> Cheers for all the input everyone.
>
> If we did go for a PC/liunx based solution I'd be inclined to go with
a
> Supermicro motherboard with a ServerWorks chipset. More PCI and memory
> bandwidth than a usual PC, they do some nice 500 quid boards with
onboard
> SCSI 160 and a combo of 32/64bit / 33/66MHz PCI slots. Something
like...
>
>
http://www.supermicro.co.uk/content/products/motherboards/rcc-hesl/370de
6.ht
> m
>
> ISTR reading somewhere (anantech if memory serves) that ServerWorks
chipsets
> do some sort of cunning interleaving to increase memory bandwidth. I
don't
> know if they handle interupts any better, but we would obviously build
and
> test this in a non-live environment so if we do go for it and it
doesn't
> work out I'm sure I'll be able to find a use for the hardware. :)
>
> As to the number of interfaces needed, we personally don't have a
> particulary large network but we do connect lots of other networks
together.
> It's a weird topology but it's something inherited rather than
designed and
> there's not much we can do about it.
>
> We shall see where we go, it's not really my final decision, I just
have to
> live with/support the bugger. :)
>
> Will.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Will Mc Donald" <wmcdonald at orctel.co.uk>
> To: <geeks at mrbill.net>
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 1:51 PM
> Subject: [geeks] Firewalls...
>
>
> > Firewall-1 on x86/linux. Good idea? Bad idea? Discuss.
> >
> <snip>
>
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