not likely. We have test clusters here with 17 interfaces which are not
showing any throughput problems.
--
Jack Coates, Rainfinity SE
t: 650-962-5301 m: 650-280-4376
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, William J Husler wrote:
>
> OK, so having eliminated a Large number of Routes, could it be a large
> number of interfaces? This box also had two QFE cards (total of 8 100M
> ethernet ports) and all ports are in use.
> Bill
>
> > From: Mystery Guest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 21:49:56 -0700 (PDT)
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [FW1] Large number of Static Routes on a Sun box
> >
> >
> > At one point we were running with ~600-700 static routes (and that is with
> > using route summarization) on our Sun U10 and we didn't notice any great
> > problems. We got fed up with adding and deleting static routes that we
> > changed the Sun box into a FW + router by adding gated. The biggest problem
> > is identifying internal networks in rules. It sure would be nice if FW-1
> > allowed rules to be put on interfaces or if it was smart enough to
> > dynamically figure out what subnets are located internally so we didn't have
> > to muck about with adding and deleting networks to the internal networks
> > FW-1 group. <sigh>
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > ./CK
> >
> >
> >> From: William J Husler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 10:32:58 -0700
> >>
> >>
> >> We have a firewall (FW-1 v4) running on a Sun ES450 that connects numerous
> >> subsidiary networks. As a result of the divergent networks involved (as
> >> well
> >> as address translation in some cases), we have add a number of static
> >> network routes (and static host routes) to the firewall. We are currently
> >> up
> >> to almost 200 lines in the routing table. This firewall is experiencing
> >> through-put problems (at least everyone is pointing fingers at it) and the
> >> vendor (Sun) tech support has stated that it could be caused by this large
> >> number of static routes. Has anyone else experienced this scenerio or have
> >> experience with a large routing table on a Sun box? One comment I
> >> particularly did not like was "It's not a router you know". Just what do
> >> they think a firewall does anyway?
> >> Bill
> >>
> >>
> >>
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