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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

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