Greetings! On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:39:29 +0200 Peter Kirkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Volker Tanger: >> One upper limit is set by hardware. The E250 can use >> two PCI busses (if you set the interface cards right), >> one standard (IIRC), one high-speed, wide. The standard >> one has 32bit x 33 MHz = 1Gbit/s (minus protocol overhead). >> >> Thus maximum throughput will be below 1Gbit/s - >> whatever duplex on network side. > This is only if there is no VPN configured i.e. the system is only > firewalling and not encrypting. Also please note that speed depends on > size of packages ( small packages degrade the performance ) Full ACK - I only was referring to the hardware bus, telling _one_ absolute upper limit. From CKP's platform matrix [1] you'll learn that a bit beefier Sun platform [2] (SunFire V120, >30% faster CPU wise) is rated as 130Mbit/s throughput - way below 1Gbit/s so my bus limit still is true... ;-) Thus expect a performance well below 100 Mbit/s for the cited E250. >From this subtract performance optimization and marketing generously rounding performance figures up, of course... Bye Volker Tanger ITK-Security [1] http://www.checkpoint.com/products/choice/platforms/platforms_matrix.html [2] http://www.checkpoint.com/products/choice/platforms/sun_iss.html ================================================= To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================
