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_at_fmr.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 2:15 PM
> To: 'Henry Baez'; firewall-wizards_at_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 looking for 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_at_eos.hitc.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 10:51 AM
> > To: firewall-wizards_at_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 one firewall that
> > claims 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 MB plus through
> > put. Management, bless them, likes to have choices, I would like to
> > present 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' the
> > speeds 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 Byte size files
> > across the world.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Henry Baez
> > hbaez_at_eos.hitc.com
> >
> >
> >
Received on Mar 02 2000
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