Any suggestions on a program to test how many connections it can handle?
The biggest difference I have noticed is with P2P traffic and Skype.
On the linksys it can not handle any p2p and skype but with the monowall 
it seems to handle it fine.

I am wanting to quantify the results to get a friend to switch over to 
using monowall.

Chris Buechler wrote:

>On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:02:39 -0600, Jim at stahlin dot net <Jim at stahlin dot net> wrote:
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>>I have replace my linksys home router with the M0n0wall runnig on some
>>old hardware I have and I think it is faster. The main thing is I think
>>it can handle more conections that the linksys router but can not be sure.
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>It might be, but either one will handle more than a typical broadband
>connection.  m0n0wall is a real stateful firewall, Linksys is nothing
>more than a router that implements NAT.  From a security perspective,
>you can't compare the two.  From a speed perspective you can use iperf
>to test throughput of a single stream, and there are other tools to
>test multiple streams.
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>I guess my point is that m0n0wall might be faster depending on what
>hardware you're using, but it's far more secure so who cares if it is
>faster (though that is another benefit).  :)
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>-Chris
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