[17832] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: True Cost of Firewalling
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Potter)
Sat Jun 13 01:35:42 1998
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 10:34:10 -0800
From: Bruce Potter <gdead@fortnocs.com>
To: Ben Kirkpatrick <bkirkpat@eli.net>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
Howdy,
As for cisco's, I don't have any references per se, altho any cisco rep
will be glad to tell you how fast cisco products are. ;)
For Solaris (sparc), HP-UX, and NT (Intel) Checkpoint Software as done
some testing with their Firewall-1 product. The results are at:
http://www.checkpoint.com/products/technology/perf_data.html
Also, FreeBSD, they've done their own testing, and the results are at:
http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ166.html#166
Note that both of these tests were run on machines running firewalling
software, so the results may be slightly less than just straight packet
forwarding, but I don't imagine by much.
Hasta
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?
>
> Thanks,
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