On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 03:16:15PM -0700, Bill Adams wrote:
:
: I just like to know what I'm buying. Its good for comparing to the price
: for doing my own server-based firewwall instead. Nokia hardware is
: basically a PC, as far as I can tell.
Your experience might differ, but I don't often run into rackmount PCs
that have things like a bootflash or hot-swappable NICs. :-)
: I can get rack-mount PCs much cheaper
: than Nokias and run Linux which performs even better than Nokia, according
: to CheckPoints performance brief:
: http://www.checkpoint.com/products/firewall-1/pbrief.html
One problem with that comparison.. You're comparing a single-CPU P-III/700
against dual Xeon 550s. Xeons aren't the cheapest CPUs... :-)
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