On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:38 AM, RB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 09:59, Curtis Maurand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> the last time I checked out the guts of a Cisco PIX, I found that it was
>> nothing more than commodity PC hardware with an Intel processor.
>
> I can't speak to the PPS, but the above statement depends on the
> model.  The 515 series was a single-processor Pentium MMX or Celeron,
> whereas the 525 & 535 had two 370 sockets, one of which was filled
> with a Cisco-custom coprocessor, the other a PIII <= 1GHz.  The 535
> could hit 1.6Gbps; no PPS numbers posted, but comes out to ~140Kpps @
> 1500 bytes.

300K pps max according to:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/vpndevc/ps5708/ps5709/ps2030/ps2119/prod_eol_notice0900aecd80731e13.html

--Bill

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