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

[Chris Calabrese <christopher_calabrese () merck com>]

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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