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RE: High Speed Firewalls
From: "Dippold, John" <John.Dippold () fmr com>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 09:53:48 -0500
Yup. I beleive that. Alteon is a switch and BigIP is a router. I bench marked IP Filter on BigIP and got up to 320 Mbs throughput with packet filtering on. You could use a cisco device and beat that but bigIP has some nice load ballancing features as well. There are a lot of options out there today for security "layering". I have to admit it's getting better.... -jsd
-----Original Message----- From: Woeltje, Donald [mailto:dwoeltje () sebh org] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 9:33 AM To: 'Dippold, John'; 'Henry Baez'; firewall-wizards () nfr net Subject: RE: High Speed Firewalls With the testing I performed as a senior consultant to the Anheuser-Busch corporation, Alteon's ACESwitch 180 outperformed BigIP 20 to 1.-----Original Message----- From: Dippold, John [SMTP:John.Dippold () fmr com] Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 2:15 PM To: 'Henry Baez'; firewall-wizards () nfr net Subject: RE: High Speed Firewalls I'm no expert but we have been looking at similar requirements. It all depends on what you call a firewall. You can use ACL's on a router at that speed. There are also several switching products that have filtering. They include Alteon and Arrowpoint. Netscreen is pretty fast but I haven't had a crack at their new Gig support. I wouldn't waste time on PIX if you're lookingfor speed.Also, BigIP has ported IP Filter to their platform and they have Gig support. My benchmarks show them topping out at 320 Mbs but that varies with packet size. I have never heard of POTUS but I will take a look, although the name "POTUS" does not inspire thoughts of high performance ;) -jsd-----Original Message----- From: Henry Baez [mailto:hbaez () eos hitc com] Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 10:51 AM To: firewall-wizards () nfr net Subject: High Speed Firewalls 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 onefirewall thatclaims 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 MBplus throughput. Management, bless them, likes to have choices, Iwould like topresent 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' thespeeds 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 Bytesize filesacross the world. Thanks, Henry Baez hbaez () eos hitc com
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- Re: High Speed Firewalls, (continued)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls Robert Graham (Mar 01)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls ddhumphr (Mar 02)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls Carric Dooley (Mar 02)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls ddhumphr (Mar 02)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls Henry Baez (Mar 01)
- RE: High Speed Firewalls Deane, James (Mar 02)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls woody weaver (Mar 03)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls Johann G. Hautzinger (Mar 06)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls woody weaver (Mar 12)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls woody weaver (Mar 03)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls Robert Graham (Mar 01)
- RE: High Speed Firewalls Woeltje, Donald (Mar 02)
- RE: High Speed Firewalls John F. Appel (Mar 02)
- RE: High Speed Firewalls Dippold, John (Mar 02)
- RE: High Speed Firewalls Sink, Douglas D (Doug), BNSVC (Mar 02)
- RE: High Speed Firewalls Burden, James (Mar 02)
- RE: High Speed Firewalls Woeltje, Donald (Mar 03)
- RE: High Speed Firewalls Rick Murphy (Mar 03)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls Bennett Todd (Mar 05)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls Paul D. Robertson (Mar 06)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls Bennett Todd (Mar 06)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls Paul D. Robertson (Mar 06)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls Bennett Todd (Mar 06)
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