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Re: Firewall is needed



On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Alex Shnitman wrote:

> > I just finished building a firewall + masquarading on a linux box...

> But masquerading is slow, isn't it? It places a much higher load on the
> box running it, than regular routing. The kernel has to edit the packets
> that it masquerades, and to create and close sockets on the way.

it's a NexGen 586, 90 Mhz, I think it can handle a 128Kb flow :-) it's
also running a squid cache server (with 32 megs, I'd rather twice as much
was available). I get up to 15k throughput, which I believe is the line's
max anyway, no complaints from the users :-)

I'm just happy with the security of it and all...



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