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[linux-security] firewalls, a practical question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Ross)
Wed Jul 22 01:52:29 1998
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 15:32:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rob Ross <rbross@parl.eng.clemson.edu>
To: linux-security@redhat.com
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
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Hello all,
Ok, so all this talk has prompted my group to consider installing a
firewall. It looks like the most economical approach would be to drop in
a machine running linux between our router and our switch to perform this
function. We have a 100Mbit full duplex connection here (to other routers
on campus), so we would like to be able to pump data through the firewall
at this rate.
Is using a linux box the appropriate choice (I would prefer this)? What
class of processor and I/O bus will be necessary to handle 100Mbit FD
traffic? I'm sure a number of you have experience with this, and I'd like
to benefit from it <smile>!
[mod: Please reply to Rob, he'll summarize... You know the drill --REW]
Thanks,
Rob Ross
Parallel Architecture Research Laboratory, Clemson University
mailto:rbross@parl.eng.clemson.edu
http://ece.clemson.edu/parl/rbross/
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