[17820] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: True Cost of Firewalling
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Cappuccio)
Fri Jun 12 14:10:46 1998
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 10:58:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chris Cappuccio <chris@empnet.com>
To: Ben Kirkpatrick <bkirkpat@eli.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980611135537.29179X-100000@mothership.eli.net>
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Ben Kirkpatrick wrote:
| Has anyone done a good comparison recently of the packet
| forwarding speeds of suns and ciscos? Sure it seems easier
| to front-end a sun and use it as a firewall, but how well
| can a sun forward ip?
|
What about comparisons with PCI based ethernet/ATM/whatever and an OS like
OpenBSD? I've nothing but great things to say about it-
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