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Last night I presented m0n0 to my local LUG. I feel the presentation came off fairly well and we managed to get some good audience participation where they posted a few good questions I'd like to run across the board. 1. If one were to use the generic PC image how many ethernet ports can m0n0 address? This particular client has a need for a 32 port firewall. Can m0n0 handle this given enough processor power and RAM? The thought was the BSD subsystem should be able to handle it well enough but what about m0n0 itself? Is there a mathematical formula to determine the processor and RAM requirements for a system such as this? 2. Has anyone ported m0n0 to SPARC or powerPC? Is this something that is being investigated for future releases? 3. Under the m0n0 license could the product be rebranded for resale? The thought here was as a consultant could you, in a managed firewall setup for a customer, paint the Soekris case (for instance) can it a Company X SuperWALL, or whatever, and be in compliance with the license? There are a couple more questions but I'll have to dig through my notes to find them. Thanks to everyone on the list and to the developers of this fine firewall. I made mention, several times, that the only thing more impressive then M0n0's ease of configuration, reliability, and breadth of features was the user group on this list and everyone's willingness to help out. Greg |