Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl-based Firewalls

[strider <strider@baka.com>]

Rich Morin wrote:
> 
> I've been wondering whether it would make sense to write a Firewall
> in (Mac)Perl.  The Mac is pretty impervious to most network attacks,
> so it should be pretty secure.  The code wouldn't *seem* to be very
> large, given all the nice Modules one could use.
> 
> The main question, I think, is performance.  Assuming something like
> a 2ci with a coule of Ethernet cards, could MacPerl keep up with,
> say, a 400 Kbps cable modem feed?

There is already a relatively good proxy server (SOCKS) written for the
Mac. Although I'm sure PERL could keep up with the socket stuff,
although someone else should verify that, there is no way that I can see
that a IIci could handle 400kbps modem feed. That's a goodly amount of
bandwidth for a machine whose I/O just couldn't handle it.

-Strider

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