[SunHELP] Solaris as firewall for windows network

[Predrag Zecevic]

Hi,

it is not metter of HW, but Solaris kernel: it is design advantage.
Regards ;-)

Kurt Huhn wrote:

> On Feb 11, 2004, at 12:03 PM, Javier O. Augusto wrote:
>
>>
>> IMHO, its useless to setup a machine like an U10 only for a firewall.
>> Why not a freebsd or a linux firewall instead?
>>
>
> Speaking from experience, the hardware of most PCs can't keep up with 
> the abuse that can be tossed at a firewall.  My experience sending 
> aggressive nmap scans through a 1.3Ghz celeron running OpenBSD, is 
> that the system simply falls down.  A 140Mhz Ultra-1 running OpenBSD, 
> on the other hand, performs flawlessly.
>
> Not to start *that* particular holy war, but my experience guides my 
> actions in this regard.
>
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> Kurt Huhn
> kurt at k-huhn.com
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