Re: IBM secureway firewall

[firegod <firegod () cobal org>]

At 07:17 PM 12/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:

> The problems that plagued us most with it - at least through version 4.x 
> were mainly ones of throughput, it simply couldn't deal with a high amount 
> of packets per second (it was a web server farm so most of the traffic was 
> small packet, bursty traffic) it started dropping a lot of traffic between 
> 5k and 8k pps IIRC.

Oh yeah - forgot to mention that we were running it on some pretty decent 
metal as well, generally 43p's (AIX RS/6000's) because the old SNG code 
couldn't be run on a multi-processor box, but once Secureway (version 4) 
came out it was supposed to be MP aware, so we also tested it pretty 
extensively it on 4-way F50's, surprisingly with similar or worse results).


--
oOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOo
Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a
drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than
truth.
                                                -Bukowski
firegod () cobal org----------------xXx-----------------rob.havelt
        Witness! the now aging and in need of updating:
                        http://www.cobal.org/

_______________________________________________
firewall-wizards mailing list
firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com
http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards