Re: High Speed Firewalls

[Bill Pennington <billp () rocketcash com>]

I do not know how long you can wait but I was beta testing the Cisco Pix
5.1 code and one of the things they mentioned in the release noes was
support for a Gig-E card. You might want to give them a ring. I seem to
recall some firewall speed test that ranked the Pix the fastest but I
could be mistaken.

Henry Baez wrote:
> I am doing research on very high speed firewalls.  I mean firewalls that
> are right now available that could handle OC3 and higher speeds via Gig
> Byte Etherenet cards.  In searching the recent posting of this list and
> a lot of general web searching, I have found only one firewall that
> claims they can do so.  It is call POTUS from a company called Livermore
> Software Laboratories.  I would very much like to find at lease another
> vendor which at lease matches the claim of PORTUS, 300 MB plus through
> put.  Management, bless them, likes to have choices, I would like to
> present more then one vendor if possiable.
>
> I have experiences with two commercial firewalls, Checkpoint and
> Gauntlet, and one freeware firewall, Ipfilter.  But the links where way
> under 10 Meg Byte.  None of the firewalls I have work on 'claim' the
> speeds I am looking for.  All the magazines 'test/reviews' I have looked
> at top out at about 150 Meg. Byte.  The number of users for this project
> would not be large, but each one would be moving Gig Byte size files
> across the world.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Henry Baez
> hbaez () eos hitc com

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Bill Pennington
Senior IT Manager
Rocketcash
billp () rocketcash com
http://www.rocketcash.com