-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Tikiri Wicks wrote: [Using fibre switch, need decent firewalling]
If only a PC could have the stability and performance of one of these switches a Linux router with multi port fibre cards would have worked beautifully.
Put it this way, if you're building a _firewall_ and not just a simple packet filter, you have no choice but to look at PCs. A few years ago you might have also looked at Sparc boxen, but it's all pretty much the same. The plan Joe outlined with 1q makes sense to me, and you'll get decent firewalling with your choice of Linux or *BSD. Routers do not make decent firewalls. PCs can, and if you're worried about reliablity there are ways to deal with that which are true of any other server (buy decent kit, redundant everything). - -- David Zanetti | (__) #include <geek/unix.h> | ( oo Mooooooo http://hairy.geek.nz/ | /(_O ./ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iD8DBQE/XmhPT21+qRy4P+QRAo82AJ95IUBCgHa/LQ50auBtDhJ5WsjbKwCfbehM 5QWASwA83JX1KHHxvZPn6eI= =GAvY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----