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From: Sudheer Divakaran <sudheer@svw.com>
Subject: Is Linux based Gateway/Firewall feasible
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 17:40:33 +0530
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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