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Comment Debian (Score 1) 133

by mcubed on Thursday January 08, 2009 @04:05PM (#26376155) Attached to: The 2008 Linux and Free Software Timeline

Sept: "The Debian project runs into problems with firmware (again) along with an unclear general resolution ballot which causes discord, eventually leading to the resignation of the project secretary"

2008 was a typical year for Debian. By the time Lenny is released, it'll be retro-cool.

Submission + - Commercial firewalls overpriced for what you get?

Submitted by

Anthony Walters

on Friday January 19, 2007 @07:46PM

Anthony Walters writes: "We recently did some traffic throughput testing on an OpenBSD server firewall using 'nttcp' and I would like to ask slashdot readers firstly if anyone has performed similar tests on commercially available firewalls and what sort of throughput they measured, and secondly if they think that expensive commercial firewalls are overpriced? We found that at worst case on the OpenBSD firewall, with a packetfilter rulebase loaded, we got a throughput of about 850Mb/s. Which means that, when disk I/O and protocol overheads are eliminated as much as possible, an 800MB file would get transferred in under 8 seconds. More details on the test setup and results can be found here"

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