All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Sudheer Divakaran <sudheer@svw.com>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Is Linux based Gateway/Firewall feasible
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 17:40:33 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40ED39B9.30608@svw.com> (raw)

Hi,

I've a local LAN consisting of about 150 machines.  I'm using a machine 
with Linux + IPTables  as the gateway machine which inturn connects to 
two different ISPs.  My question is can a Linux based machine match the 
performance of a hardware based routers provided by Cisco,... OR is my 
decision to go for a Linux based solution is a wrong one?.

Is there so much difference between these two solutions?

Can I achieve the same performance using a high end PC and Linux?

I'm asking this because one guy told me that my decision to go for a 
Linux based solution is a wrong one and it can never match the 
performance of hardware based Routers.

Thanks
Sudheer


             reply	other threads:[~2004-07-08 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-08 12:10 Sudheer Divakaran [this message]
2004-07-08 12:55 ` Is Linux based Gateway/Firewall feasible Antony Stone
2004-07-08 14:05 ` Marco Colombo
2004-07-08 14:30   ` Sudheer Divakaran
2004-07-09  7:46     ` Cedric Blancher
2004-07-09 12:35       ` Marco Colombo
2004-07-08 14:43 ` Cedric Blancher
2004-07-09  0:38 ` Daniel F. Chief Security Engineer -
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-08 13:21 Mike O
2004-07-08 13:38 ` Antony Stone

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=40ED39B9.30608@svw.com \
    --to=sudheer@svw.com \
    --cc=netfilter@lists.netfilter.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.