Re: Firewall performance

[Sandy Green <sand232 () yahoo com>]

Thanks to all those who responded. But actaully
that does not answer my query. 
There is a lab report on the checkpoint site about the 
solaris vs NT performance. 
fine.... but actaully there are other important factors
like PCI bus speed of the computer as well, CPU 
speed ,memory. 
The point is that even if the CPU speed is a 500 MHZ pentium and 
memory is 10 MB , that does not help improve the performance.
what the labs do is get a machine from DELL/COMPAQ latest model as
shipped by them and perform the tests on them without tailoring the
RAM or PCI speed.
I have done some tests on a server with 500 MB of RAM ! and there
was no significant improvement. I thought that this list would have
expereinced such issues in their environments. But unluckily for 
me I have not got any response from any of the list members.
But I would keep persisting....

thanks to all. and please do email me.
sandy

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 17:58:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sandy Green <sand232 () yahoo com>
Subject: Security conference NETSEC 99

Dear list members,

I needed to get some sort of feedback about the 
recently held Security conference NETSEC 99.
All the lucky ones who atteneded this conference
would have certainily benefited from it. But for some
reason(s) I could not make it. I would greatly appreciate
if some of you could share your experiences and 
learning with me. 

second. This is about the firewall performance.
In my mind these would be the factors for the 
bastion host performance ( processing the number
of packets and taking a decision )
CPU speed, PCI bus speed, Memory,..., and of 
course the WAN link connectivity speed... any more

all thes factors have in turn a direct bearing on each
other... just like security as strong as the weakesk
link, similarly the processing speed (of the firewall)
would be as fast as the slowest parameter( CPU
speed, WAN/LAN connectivity speed, PCI bus speed...)
Please let me know your views or could point me to
resources on the web.

Thanks
sandy
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