Re: Firewalls & multicast- what's the choice?

[Carson Gaspar <carson () taltos org>]

The only firewall I know of that actually speaks multicast routing is the 
Juniper/Netscreen. Almost any firewall can be configured to forward the 
traffic, but most won't participate in the group membership protocols. 
Others have recommended the PIX - it would be my second choice, as it 
handles heavy loads pretty well. Checkpoint would be dead last - it's 
terrible at small packet high volume forwarding.

--On Tuesday, August 01, 2006 11:41 AM +0000 Bob Arthurs 
<bob_arthurs () hotmail com> wrote:

> hello
>
> my company is going to build three new data centers and we are
> considering  what type of firewalls to put in. i need some advice, and
> any help is very  much appreciated...
>
> The firewalls need to be able to forward quite high volumes of mulitcast
> and  interact with **PIM router** (cisco router). Traffic volumes are at
> least  10s of Mbps (including unicast traffic), maybe 100s, maybe 1Gbps!
>
> Previously we have used Nokia firewalls, but we want to know what people
> are  choosing thes days for data center/multicast:
>
> should be go with Checkpoint, Cisco, other....
>
> do we need Checkpoint Secure Platform / Secure Platform Pro?
>
> do we need Checkpoint on Crossbeam or other appliance?
>
> any special considerations for PIM / Multicast?
>
> what are the alternatives, when are they used, and what are their
> pros/cons.
>
>
> Thankyou very much in advance....
>
>
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