Re: Firewall/VPN recommendation for (Ex-) Gauntlet reseller

["Ryan Reynolds" <rreynolds () theocc com>]

The Nokia IP650 has six expansion slots.  One must be used for the disk, so you
can have a max of five quad cards, or 20 ethernet ports.

-Ryan


Chris Calabrese wrote:

> Stuart Flisher wrote:
>
> > Which platform? Easiest is probably the Nokia boxes for low to medium
> > traffic. I think there is a limit of four NICs on the Nokia box if it is
> > important. Nokia boxes can be configured for failover.
>
> Yes, but each Ethernet NIC is 4 ports, so that's 16 Ethernet ports.
>
> > [...] Sun boxes probably
> > offer better performance than Nokia boxes.
>
> Depends on which Sun box and which Nokia box.  From what I've seen,
> a top of the line Nokia 650 box will do about as well as a Sun 220/250 with
> a single processor.  The difference is that you can keep adding more
> hardware in the Sun world, whereas it's hard to soup up a toaster.
>
> > If you need VPN accelerator cards then I don't think the Nokia boxes support
> > them (yet)
>
> Yes, the Nokia boxes support VPN accelerator cards.


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