Thanks for your suggestion. I did try it in a lab. I
had a box inside the firewall and a box outside the
firewall. I was pinked the boxes from inside the
firewall. I saw a difference of about 4 ms. In my
test, I only had a Sparc 5 as the firewall. I was
wondering if any one had any other numbers.
Yim
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> At the risk of sounding obvious, test it! There may
> be some benchmark
> figures, but so much is going to depend on platform,
> rulebase, encryption,
> NAT etc that probably everyone's milage will vary.
> I'd suggest a snffer,
> some known content and an hour or so looking at
> delta times on packet
> captures....
>
> At least you'd be sure that the figures you've got
> are applicable to your
> environment.
>
> $0.02
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]@lists.us.checkpoint.com on
> 13/02/2001 23:08:08
>
> Sent by:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cc:
> Subject: [FW1] Latency through the fw
>
>
>
> I am on an E450 with 1 GB of memory on Solaris 2.6
> with CheckPoint 4.1 SP2. The system is not very
> heavy
> loaded (about 70% idle). I was wondering what is
> the
> latency between going through the fw and not going
> through the fw.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Yim
>
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