hi, Netra may ot be a Great box for Fire-Wall at the same time it is not bad.CPU speed is really not the bottle neck.Sufficent memory (128-256) and diskspace (arond 4GB) and 100Mbps Ethernet card should do the job. prashanth rao > -----Original Message----- > From: S Siraj [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, February 21, 1999 11:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: > > Howdy: > > I need some advice. > > Currently we are running Gauntlet Firewall 4.1 on a Compaq Pro Liant > 2500 server. Configuration: CPU=200 Mhz, RAM=128, OS=BSDi > > We have a Sun "Netra i" server that was bought about 3-4 yrs ago. The > basic configuration for the server are as follows: CPU=143MHz, RAM=64, > OS=Solaris 2.6 > > We would like to use the "Netra i" for our Gauntlet 4.2 Firewall. > Couple of questions: > > 1) Does anyone have any experience with Netra i servers? Good > experience? Bad experience? > 2) Does anyone have any experience with Netra i server running Gauntlet > 4.2 Firewall? > > Reason we would like to move to Solaris: we are trying to implement > proxy for Oracle (SQL*Net calls) through the firewall, just like we have > our proxy setup for FTP or HTTP. According to Oracle, BSDi does not have > support for Oracle proxy. Any thoughts on that? > > I was told by someone that Netra i servers are not stable and will not > be adequate for running firewall, even if we upgrade the RAM. We looked > into upgrading the CPU but Sun told us that there is no upgrade for that > CPU. > > Any input will be greatly appreciated. > > TIA. > > Shoeb. > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > - > [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.] - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
