I would like to know about the 535's also curious if you have worked with the 525's at all. We just got two to replace some old 510's. Thanks, Liz ""matt shiite"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I don't know too much about the Nokia boxes, but have > done quite a bit of work on Pix's. I witnessed the > 515 fail at between 20-30 mbs (a documented bug). I > found that to be very lame. Also, did quite a bit of > testing with cisco on the PIX 535. If anyone cares to > see when that thing fails....let me know. You might > be suprised :) > > > ms > > > --- Eric wrote: > > The Checkpoint/Nokia 330 runs IPSO as the OS on > > hardened freeBSD. These will > > actually run routing protocols too, i.e.., RIP, > > OSPF, IGRP, etc.... Nice GUI > > too...They do dominate their market segment. > > > > Eric > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Chuck Larrieu" > > To: > > Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 1:50 PM > > Subject: OT - Firewall performance Comparisons - is > > it quitting time > > [7:30576] > > > > > > > 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send your FREE holiday greetings online! > http://greetings.yahoo.com
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