[ale] Firewall discussion...hardware horsepower?

[Stephan Uphoff]

Chris Woodfield wrote:
> As an adjunct to the firewall discussion, I'm looking at upgrading 
> mine...I'm currently running a Via EDEN 500 based box which does strict 
> packet filtering and connection tracking fine, but starts to have 
> issues when I turn on any sort of packet logging and/or IDS.

What are your issues with logging/IDS?
What Ethernet card(s) are you using and what are you using 
it for (internal/external) ?
Any shared interrupts / interrupt routing issues?
What is your bandwidth?
Can you send the dmesg?

Just curious - I would have thought a Via EDEN 500 would be
more than enough - even with some logging.

Thanks
	Stephan