recommend hardware firewall

[Michal]

On 06/04/2010 03:45, Michael Miles wrote:
> On 04/05/2010 05:40 PM, Mail Lists wrote:
>>    Lots of good comments here.
>>
>>     I have seen a befsx (newer than the befsr) which could not keep up
>> with a cable internet connection -  reduced d/l by 20% or so. This was a
>> nominal 30 Mb/s d/l and the router was definitely the bottleneck.
>>
>>    The primary firewall, linux with over 30,000 rules has no such issue -
>> its a 3 Ghz Pentium D with 3com 905 C ethernet controllers.
>>
>>    gene
>>
>>
>>    
> I do plan on an upgrade to a better router
> 
> So if I wanted to create a separate machine and put 3 or 4 good lan 
> adapters on a amd xp 1500
> install fedora 12 and use it as a firewall only, would probably be a 
> good alternative to a 100 dollar router
> 
> Michael

I know this is a fedora list but OpenBSD with PF will work very well as
a router out the box and well worth a look at (even if it's just for
research purposes)