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#! rnews 918 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!38.8.16.2!psinntp!orbital.com!staff From: "Mike Mohar" <mmohar@orbital.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: IPFW Performance Issues? Date: 10 Feb 1997 18:51:36 GMT Organization: Orbital Sciences Corp. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <01bc1783$e93ee8a0$431224c7@MMOHA.orbital.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mmoha.orbital.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35440 Hi, I'm interested in hearing about performance issues when using a large set of IPFW rules on a FreeBSD Intel Pentuim XXX Firewall system. By large, I'm estimating a ruleset of a few hundred. Is it possible and still be able to get good performance to the Internet over a T-1? Any info would be appreciated! Thanks, Mike mmohar@orbital.com