Christopher,
Assuming that an OC-12 will be piped to your location, I trust your router
has enough firepower handle it. My recommendation would be a 7206VXR with a
gigabit ethernet module.
My firewall recommendation is a Checkpoint Firewall-1 on a Linux platform
(Red Hat 6.2) with an Intel gigabit ethernet adapter. On a Dual Xeon
machine you'll be astounded at the perfomance. You could even run a
firewall cluster with a software package called Stonebeat.
If I can help in any way, please drop me a line.
Regards,
Scott M. Trieste
CCNP/Security, CCDP, RHCE, MCSE+Win2k
""Tim O'Brien"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> It depends on what kind of bandwidth you are talking about (encrypted or
> not) but here are the current throughputs for the different PIX firewalls.
>
> Aggregate Full Duplex Clear Text (Mbps):
> 515R - 120
> 515UR - 170
> 520 - ~370
> 525 - ~370
> 535 - 1,000 (Yep.. 1Gbps!)
>
> If you need anythin else, let me know...
>
> Tim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Kolp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 12:37 PM
> Subject: Firewall Traffic - What Is The Bandwidth Limit Of A PIX?
>
>
> This question is a bit off target from the list but maybe someone can shed
> some light on this....
>
> My company is looking to purchase firewalls for our OC-12 circuits. I know
> in the past, bandwidth
> was a serious issue with firewalls ie. not being able to pass traffic fast
> enough. Has anyone had
> any experience with this? We brought a Nokia in for testing and found it
> choked at 40Mbs.
>
> I realize that every manufacturer would like to sell the world and claim
> unreal numbers, so I'm
> asking for any advice!
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Ck
>
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