On Thursday 02 October 2008 01:23:02 Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> seriously -- get a firewall which can handle your traffic.  a garden
> variety server can easily handle a gigabit of traffic, at least on
> layer 3 (I don't have experience with bridge firewalls).

Indeed.  Our bacula director/sd is behind a firewall to all but a handful of 
our hosts.  So traffic to it, from the same switch but different IP subnets 
or VLANs, even has to pass through the firewall.  But that's a *good* thing.  
You should firewall your bacula server so it only accepts connections to the 
SD from the hosts you expect.

Incidentally, our router is an embedded VIA motherboard, 1GHz, 512 MB of RAM, 
running Ubuntu 8.04.  And it handles the backup traffic just fine.

Regards,
Tyler

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