[70499] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Neiberger)
Mon May 17 17:15:34 2004
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 15:11:57 -0600
From: "John Neiberger" <John.Neiberger@efirstbank.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>>> "Jared B. Reimer" <jared@theriver.com> 5/17/04 2:48:16 PM >>>
>We have done an eval of this same product (model 400). It is very
cool in
>virtually every regard except one: performance. We were facing 1+
hour
>mail delays (!) through the device when pumping less than 1,000,000
>messages per day through it. Given that they claim it can handle ten
>times that much, I am left wondering what happened. Very
disappointing in
>that regard; the eval unit is being shipped back as a result. --
Jared
Did you not receive some basic support from them during your
evaluation? A perceived 90% drop in performance is pretty significant
and I'd imagine that they'd be interested in helping to determine the
cause.
John
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