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James D. Wilson
"non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem"
William of Ockham (1285-1347/49)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Steele
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 3:02 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OS Platform for firewall (...the answer is..)
See the following link, particularly the "stress test" section:
http://www.data.com/lab_tests/ntfirewalls.html
MSP 2.0 hit 62.7 Mbits/sec with NAT enabled, and Heatseeker Pro hit
96.34
Mbits/sec without NAT. This is probably far and above many people's
needs.
It's certainly above mine, considering our company's external link is
512KB
:-). At what speed would your external link have to be in order for a
firewall capable of 62.7 Mbits/s to become a bottleneck?
Interestingly enough, the Raptor and Checkpoint solutions' performance
was
among the lowest, but I'm sure most offices can live with 34 Mbits/s
and
higher throughput quite easily. I tend to agree with Data
Communications'
stance that Firewall performance is secondary to security or
management.
Regards,
Brian Steele
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From: HOFMAN, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, 12 January, 1999 8:42 PM
Subject: RE: OS Platform for firewall (...the answer is..)
>James has a point, although no doubt someone will point out that
memory is
>cheap etc. :-)
>
>One thing that I have noticed is that the UNIX flavours tend to have
better
>throughput on similar powerd boxes, eg. 60-85Mbits/s Whereas NT
often
peaks
>out at 25-35Mbits/s. So I have tended to use UNIX when high volume
traffic
>is expected and NT when the site is an NT site, or only has NT
experience
>available.
>
>No doubt NT will catch up, but it isn't quite there yet from the
throughput
>point of view.
>
>Mark.
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