I sure love slow days like today. I've discovered a whole new section on the company intranet - a group that does performance and acceptability testing for vendor equipment which we sell.
So I'm looking over the firewall report - Cisco 515 versus several other things. I have never seen or heard this before, but according to this doc, Checkpoint on a Nokia 330 box outperformed the PIX 515 substantially. by about 20% in terms of throughput. I have always heard that PIX outperforms Checkpoint by a large margin. Maybe that was when compared to Checkpoint on a Windoze box? Interesting to see in the results was that the Cisco 1601 with IP firewall feature set outperformed the Cisco 2610 by a decent ( but not overwhelming ) margin. The PIX 515 looks to be about 50% faster than the 1601 and twice as fast as the 2610. The PIX 515 was about twice as fast, in terms of throughput, than the $500 Netscreen 5XP ( low end ) firewall Granted, the testbed was limited in that there were just a few stations on the inside trying to get to just a few stations on the outside. Traffic simulation was used for different types of traffic ( http, ftp, etc ) Granted there are other issues, such as scalability. Still, it sure looks to be an interesting year ahead, in the security products market. Happy New Year, everyone! Chuck Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=30576&t=30576 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
