RE: Firewall Throughput

["Robert Purdy" <liteyear () ihug co nz>]

It seems that I am not everyone.  These days, (In New Zealand anyway), you
can get a 25Mb PIR with a 256K CIR Wireless link for cheaper than the
equalivent 2Meg/256K under the ground solution.

This holds great problems for those running firewalls, now instead of
sattlite sites pushing a max of 2Mb/s across a firewall port, they can
create up to 25Mb/s traffic each!  (Assuming you are Firewalling your
sattelite sites)

Throughput of firewalls is fast becoming an issue and I believe as time
wears on the likes of Checkpoint and Cisco are fast going to have to prove
thier claims.

Regards,
Rob Purdy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: firewall-wizards-admin () nfr net
> [mailto:firewall-wizards-admin () nfr net]On Behalf Of bsgupta
> Sent: Thursday, 7 September 2000 4:32 p.m.
> To: Darren Reed; Benson Hill
> Cc: firewall-wizards () nfr net
> Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Firewall Throughput
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I vote for Mr.Darren, first decide What u need Security/Thruput?
> Any way as everybody know that WAN links are slower than LAN,
> decide first which one u want.
>
> Regs,
> Gupta.
>
> On Wednesday, September 06, 2000 at 08:30:18 PM, Darren Reed wrote:
>
> > In some email I received from Benson Hill, sie wrote:
> > [Internal error while calling pgp, raw data follows]
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> > >
> > > Hey All
> > >
> > > We're looking to purchase a new enterprise level firewall.
> > > As you can imagine, among other things, throughput is
> > > one of the major concerns.
> > >
> > > Currently we're looking at CheckPoint VPN-1 and Cisco
> > > PIX.
> > >
> > > Of course, both companies claim their solution is the best.
> > > Cisco says they are faster, CheckPoint says that's true only
> > > for certain types of traffic.
> > [...]
> >
> > What do you value more - throughput or security ?
> >
> > If you value security, the PIX isn't the answer, IMHO.  Then again,
> > the level of protection desired may mean that FW-1 is inappropriate.
> >
> > If you value throughput then why bother with a PIX ?
> > Just get a router and add appropriate ACL's.
> >
> > The first thing that comes to my mind when I see people asking this
> > question is "How fast do you want people to break in?".
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Darren
> >
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