OK, I'll reply to myself. Tested with a DL380-G2. Flies right through the tests at just over 10MBit. Apparently the DL360 has some seriously lower-end guts inside it? I'm not a server guy, so I can't guess at that - but it works on a DL380 G2 now.
Ralph Los ::: -----Original Message----- ::: From: Ralph Los [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ::: Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 11:21 PM ::: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ::: Subject: RealSecure Guard 3.1 (latest) ::: ::: ::: Hey all, ::: ::: Curious to see who's implemented Guard lately. It's ::: getting difficult to grab the DL380 boxes and I have a ::: client with a bunch of DL360's sitting around. Nearly ::: exactly the same architecture as far as the server goes, ::: but a WORLD of difference in terms of SPEED and throughput. ::: ::: After successfully installing the Guard software on the ::: box, we decieded to do an end-to-end test. From one site ::: of the IDS to the other. The setup was as follows: ::: [desktop armed with a 10/100 NIC (hard-set to 100/full)] ::: --> [Cisco 2940 switch] --> [GUARD] --> [Cisco 2940 switch] ::: --> [desktop armed with a 10/100 NIC (hard-set to ::: 100/full)]. Perhaps my methodology was flawed, but....we ::: got ONLY 1.28MB/sec through that setup. That's INSANELY ::: SLOW! Is it the hardware we were running Guard on? (I ::: can't believe it would make THAT much difference), or is it ::: the switches, or what? As a side note, we did an FTP ::: upload. Without the guard box we got 804kb/sec from ::: end-to-end through the bypass pod. ::: ::: Perhaps someone can comment on this...someone from ::: NetworkICE's group? ISS? Someone who's done this before? ::: ::: ::: Thanks in advance, ::: ::: Ralph Los ::: Sr. Security Engineer, Trainer ::: EnterEdge Technology - Atlanta ::: (770) 955-9899 x.206 ::: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :::
