On 04/05/2010 05:40 PM, Mail Lists wrote: > Lots of good comments here. > > I have seen a befsx (newer than the befsr) which could not keep up > with a cable internet connection - reduced d/l by 20% or so. This was a > nominal 30 Mb/s d/l and the router was definitely the bottleneck. > > The primary firewall, linux with over 30,000 rules has no such issue - > its a 3 Ghz Pentium D with 3com 905 C ethernet controllers. > > gene > > > I do plan on an upgrade to a better router So if I wanted to create a separate machine and put 3 or 4 good lan adapters on a amd xp 1500 install fedora 12 and use it as a firewall only, would probably be a good alternative to a 100 dollar router Michael -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines