recommend hardware firewall

[Michael Miles]

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
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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