Re: [Soekris] net5501 network throughput

2008-07-05 Thread Chris Babcock
Vincent Li wrote: Hi List, I am thinking to get net5501 installed as transparent firewall for the university department network I manage. We are on 100M public network and I manage up to 120 computers on the 100M public network. Note that as educational public network, we have lot fo

Re: [Soekris] net5501 network throughput

2008-07-05 Thread Vincent Li
A 5501 can handle the full bandwidth of 100M links. However whether a 5501 can handle your environment depends on how complex a ruleset you are planning on using for firewalling. Do you know which OS/firewall package you would like to use? Also, what do you have in place for a firewall right

Re: [Soekris] net5501 network throughput

2008-07-05 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-07-05, Chris Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A 5501 can handle the full bandwidth of 100M links. However whether a 5501 can handle your environment depends on how complex a ruleset you are planning on using for firewalling. Besides ruleset, it also depends a lot on how many packets

[Soekris] net5501 network throughput

2008-07-04 Thread Vincent Li
Hi List, I am thinking to get net5501 installed as transparent firewall for the university department network I manage. We are on 100M public network and I manage up to 120 computers on the 100M public network. Note that as educational public network, we have lot fo data flowing in/out of our