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

[Storm D. J. Petersen]

Any network device (ie: switch, router, firewall) will add a small amount of
latency.  To test the latency your firewall adds, you could simply try to do
a ping www.google.com, directly in front and behind the firewall, and look
at the ms response times.

Cheers,

S.

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From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steven Langley
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 2:12 AM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] will a firewall slow down asterisk?

Hi there

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?

Many thanks

Steven Langley