Late to the party here, but note that the first three ports on the SonicWall NSA240 (labeled X0, X1, X2) are 1000 Mbps, not 10/100. It's in the "Getting Started Guide" ( http://www.sonicwall.com/downloads/SonicWALL_NSA_240_Getting_Started_Guide.pdf ) as well as labeled that way on the front.
I don't use ports X3-X8 anyway. X0 (LAN) is dumped to a gigabit switch, and X1 & X2 are dual WAN connections. However, depending on what software features you have running on the thing the NSA240 throughput performance could span from easily handling 200/200 to being a potential choke point. Throughput: Stateful Inspection - 600 Mbps Intrusion Prevention - 195 Mbps IMEX Performance - 195 Mbps 3DES/AES VPN - 150 Mbps UTM Performance - 110 Mbps We don't subscribe to any of the additional services, so stateful inspection has plenty of headroom on our 75/75 fiber. Just an FYI. -- Mark From: Stefan Jafs <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: 12/03/2014 08:52 AM Subject: [NTSysADM] Firewalls / Web filtering Sent by: [email protected] I?m going around in circles trying to make a decision on a new Firewall and Web filtering appliance. We currently have the SonicWall NSA240 * 2 for HA and iPrism for Webfiltering. We have increased our speed on Rogers fibre to 200 / 200 Mbs, the SonicWall is only 100 Mbs. Also the iPrism can?t handle our 300 + users any more, delays when trying to open a web page. So I have been looking at Cisco ASA, upgraded SonicWall, Barracuda, Fortinet and Sophos SG 330. Cisco ? looks very complicated to setup and $$$ SonicWall ? probably ok with a separate Web filtering appliance, easy to install can upgrade current configs. Barracuda ? looks good, Googling and reviews not so good. Fortinet ? looks ok Sophos ? looks good on paper and I already have Sophos endpoint protection, leaning towards this solution. Anyone that can give me real hands on recommendations? Thanks __________________________________ Stefan Jafs
