Re: high-end firewall
Try http://www.znyx.com/ they have range of NICs and driver source for Linux.
They support etherchannel and failover.
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Blars Blarson wrote:
> I've been asked to spec a firewall for our network at work. While I find
> pleanty of info about using linux as a low-end home firewall, and it doesn't
> seem to tax the system hard, I havn't found much about how well it scales
> up, and what kind of hardware is needed to run it.
>
> We have a /24 with around 150 systems on it, and growing. The
> incoming feed is 100baseFX full duplex, with a T3 bottleneck upstream.
> We have 10 managed 24-port Fast ethernet switches (in four locations)
> connected together with 1000baseSX. Our users are in several
> different departments, and it would be best to group them. (The
> switches can do VLANs.)
>
> Since I havn't found a pre-packaged solution that fits our needs,
> I'm looking into using a linux box as a router.
>
> Are there any quad fast ethernet cards supported by debian/potato?
> (I've found them for solaris and microsoft.) 6-8 interfaces is
> difficult without multi-port cards. An alternate would be 1000baseSX
> with multiple mac addresses. (The linksys switches can't vlan by IP,
> only be mac. The SMC switches can vlan by IP.)
>
> Would a gigahertz Pentium 3 be able to handle the load of routing
> between several 100baseTX cards without being a bottleneck?
>
> Does the remaining Novel crap have to stay outside the firewall, since
> it would only pass IP? (Or can debian do IPX routing?)
>
> --
> Blars Blarson blarson@blars.org
> http://www.blars.org/blars.html
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