Thanks Mike.
Do you know of any site(s) that has information on benchmark comparison
between Intel and SPARC? Also NT and Solaris? Just curious.
Regards,
Shoeb.
>From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: your mail
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (S Siraj)
>Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:53:56 -0500 (EST)
>
>
>The Netra will need at least 64mb of ram but will kick the puey out of
>the Proliant. As to stability, I've only had a sun crash on me once
and
>that was due to a beta firewall module under extremely high load for
several
>days. Our suns tend to be more stable than our non-cisco routers :)
>
>I have never run Gauntlet on a sun, only Firewall-1 though. Using
Firewall-1,
>we had an Ultra-1 (same thing) with 512mb ram firewalling out a T3.
>
>later,
>.mike
>
>> 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.
>>
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