Re: Appliance to install m0n0wall on

Chris Buechler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.m0n0wall
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Nathaniel B. Lyon
<[email protected]> wrote:
> So monowall doesn't scale the state table based on the amount of memory the box has like pfsense?
>

No, ipfilter hard codes the limit. Not sure if that's something that's
changed in newer ipfilter versions (latest m0n0wall is FreeBSD 6.4,
latest FreeBSD is 8.1) so may change in the future, at this time
that's the case though.

> Also, would gig on board be better than something pci based?
>

Generally a wash, as long as you're talking PCI-X or PCI-e, not PCI.
The latter is too slow for full gig speeds.
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