[Asterisk-Users] will a firewall slow down asterisk?

[Mark Phillips]

Technically, yes it will. The question should really be "is the latency 
tolerable?"

I run (as do many folks here) mine from behind a Linksys firewall at 
home and I find the latency increase to be acceptable. I use Broadvoice 
as a provider and have 3 other extensions connected to it from remote 
locations (2 in the UK and one in Canada) all behind their firewalls.

Professionally I run one that sits behind a Checkpoint FW1 NG firewall 
running on a Sun box and it too is acceptable.

Mark

Steven Langley wrote:
> Hi there
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> I am in the process of setting up a production Asterisk server, which 
> will mainly be used for meetme conferencing. I am considering running a 
> firewall, but wondering whether this will slow Asterisk down if all 
> packets are being scanned. Any ideas?
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> Many thanks
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> Steven Langley
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