The biggest baddest ASA was a HPAQ DL-585 with a new paint job :-) http://bradreese.com/blog/2-22-2011.htm
Not my first or indeed second or third choice of firewall for any requirement. There are lies, damned lies and cisco benchmarks. I have a sneaky suspicion that if the ASA was set on fire with a Breakingpoint, the real world pps/forwarding figures would be a fraction of what Crisco claim they are..... And the least said about Chokepoint benchmarks the better... http://blog.lachmann.org/?p=1071 ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Buechler [[email protected]] Sent: 20 September 2011 08:24 To: pfSense support and discussion Subject: Re: [pfSense] 10GbE performance? On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Greg Hennessy <[email protected]> wrote: > That depends on what type and distribution of traffic is being firewalled, > I've replaced Pix 535s in the Past with PF on FreeBSD with much obvious > performance improvements all round. > This. > However no software firewall I know of will handle 10gigE @ at high rate > small packet level. > For that matter I'm not aware of any commercial firewall that can do 10 Gb of entirely small packets. The biggest, baddest ASA, which costs as much as a house, can't. It will roughly do 3-4 times the pps rate of the fastest general purpose server hardware with a general purpose OS that you can get though. _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
