RE: High Speed Firewalls

["David Newman" <dnewman () networktest com>]

> > My contention is that it is not possible to ftp a 12.5-Mbyte
> (100-Mbit) file
> > through a firewall with 100Base-T interfaces in 1 second, even
> though the
> > interfaces are theoretically capable of moving traffic at that rate.
>
> Ok.  My contention is precisely that it IS possible to FTP a 100 Mbit file
> through a firewall with 100Base-T interfaces in one second, plus
> the epsilon
> time of network latency for the last packet to get through.

How does a firewall push:

100 Mbits of payload,
plus packet headers,
plus tcp setup,
plus ftp setup,
plus ftp teardown,
plus tcp teardown,

all across a 100-Mbit/s link in 1 second?

Immunix must be even cooler than I thought. ;-)

David Newman
Network Test