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Re: Nokia interview questions
From: hesselsp () ashaman dhs org
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 21:42:31 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 black () galaxy silvren com wrote:
amounts of data. They do make gigabit interfaces for the Nokia firewalls, and while I haven't seen any specifics on benchmarking, I don't think the manufacturer would make an interface for their product if it could not stand up to the bandwidth reasonably well. You may choose to argue this point.
Ouch. I haven't met a vendor that made a product that could stand up to the bandwidth very well.... except for Juniper. I guess that ~200mb/s is reasonable for a gig card. My guess would be the only reason why they came out with this is because you can buy gig cards for linux and solaris. More of a marketing thing really. How many free PCI slots on a nokia? mb/pci slot might be another reason. and On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 Peter Lukas <plukas () oss uswest net> wrote:
You mean you didn't buy CheckPoint's benchmark of the Linux Ferrari, Sun Oldsmobuick, Nokia Ford Escort and NT Lexus? :-) Of course, they follow their 250Mbps/3DES nonsense with "ample for most T1's." Of couse, I've always maintained that folks spend the national defecit building fast firewalls so they can cram 100GB of traffic up their cocktail straw DS3! ;-)
Well, the way I have always looked at it is, an over powered firewall will likely have better latencies, less jitter, and less packet loss when dealing with reasonable speeds. Then again, I have never done a "normal" firewall install. Most people don't care too much about these things... it seems. I guess that people don't put firewalls between their engineers and accounting.... so all you ever deal with is internet connection. A T1 or something. Not Fast Ethernet.... or worse. I did ask Checkpoint over and over again about which network card they used in linux... or what rule base they used... I don't remember now if I ever got an answer. _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://list.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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