wait a min, unless you have more then 2 T-3 lines 100Mb full duplex
ethernet will not be your limit. with a switched network your firewall
will only see the trafic destined for the outside world plus broadcast
traffic. It does you no good to put in a firewall/router capabile of
Gb/sec performance if you hook it to a 1.5Mb T-1.
David Lang
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Paul D. Robertson wrote:
> > can you go into more detail on this statement? the aratecture that I
> > assumed for this is 100Mb full duplex ethernet to a switch which then has
> > the internal users on it, on the outside i only have 2 T-1 lines so even
> > 10Mb ethernet should be reasonable.
>
> Let's say there are 400 users and 150 of the are active. Put them all on
> a switched full duplex network, then take that aggragated traffic and push
> it at even a 100Mb/s interface. (Remember that in a business, most
> communications are internal, a school dorm probably won't have the same
> pattern... unless everyone's playing Quake) You'll collide on the
> internal NIC pretty heavily. I'd be worried about buffering on the
> outbound side too.
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