Re: pf on a p90

["Christopher Hylarides" <hylaride@sheridanc.on.ca>]

It depends, if it's for a handful of users, you will be fine, but if its
for many users/servers being continuously pounded while you have 5
different SSH 2 sessions going, you will notice a slowdown.

I am running a p 100 as my firewall and I was updating my source via CVS
on a box behind it while recompiling the kernel on the firewall.  I
didn't notice that much of a slowdown...

Cheers,
Christopher Hylarides
hylaride@sheridanc.on.ca

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org] On Behalf
Of taproot420
Sent: June 17, 2002 8:26 PM
To: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: pf on a p90

I found a p90 W/90megs of ram and was wondering if this would be enough
oomph for a pf firewall that would be responsible for connecting my home
lan to the internet via a T1 or the new 3-5meg dsl lines that are said
to be coming soon? The only other spare computer I have Is a 150mhz and
I was wanting to use it for a nfs server that is why I was looking into
the p90 to fill this need. One other thing that I need the pf firewall
to do is nat inbound (originating from the internet) ipsec connections
to my vpn server. I tried ipf before for this but was unsuccessful
nating more that one ipsec connection at a time. As for the load the pf
fw would see... I would say no more than 10 concurrent connections. 

I would also appreciate if one posted the links to some of the archives
such as MR. Hollands as I would like to have more research capabilities
on openbsd.

Thanks in advance 

Taproot420