Re: Sizing a firewall

["daN." <dan () nesmail com>]

        They are going to pipe 25,000 internet connections through 1 T1??? wow,
lunch time is guna be slower than a dialup :P make sure you can set
priority Ques on whatever firewall/routers you decide to put in place so
you can give priority to DNS/mail/whatever else over web traffic...Most of
the companies I've setup with over 500 users complain that a T1 is to
slow..I hope that the T1 is only for users and mabey a mail server, if they
are expecting to run a webserver through that as well they may have some
problems.  As a rule of thumb I never allow more than 1000 Desktop Users on
a T1..

Dan Steele
Network Admin
Westnet Management.

At 06:18 PM 12/29/99 -0500, Walt Sullivan wrote:
> I'm consulting for a Canadian government agency that plans to allow
> desktop access to the Internet for the first time next year (yes, I
> know, "Forward into the 70's", but is is government).
>
> They think they have about 25,000 desktops (Windows 95/98, shudder).
>
> How can I help them predict the amount of traffic they'll see on their
> T1 connection?
>
> Is there anybody out there running a firewall for 25K desktops that is
> willing to share an order-of-magnitude guess?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Walt
>
> -- 
> Walt Sullivan
> UNIX & Networks, Security & SysAdmin
> walt () trytel com