Thanks for you response. But my question is oriented to recommend a
firewall. Obviously, in the most of the cases, the bottleneck is a bad
arquitecture, some device are not correctily configurated, etc., but when
I want recommend a firewall I won't recommend a SOHO firewall to a company
with various E1 links and a web site with thousand of visits every hour...
:), thus What kind of features must have the firewall?, How Can I
dimensionate the device?. I'm thinking only in the perfomance issues
'cause of course that we need the policies, business plan, etc.
Thanks
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>Fredy, forgive me, but that is one of those questions that flat cannot be
>answered in hard statistical fashion. Nobody can predict what your
>throughput is without actually being on your network. You might claim
>having a lightspeed connection, when in fact you are running Ethernet as
>your backbone. You will be limited to the technology you employ. It is
>as
>simple as that.
>
>All to often, people get caught up in the trap that if the stats say they
>can provide x-speed, then my network must perform at x-speed. It NEVER
>works out that way. It depends is all anyone can say at this point. DO
>not
>however think that the fastest super whiz bang is "Best" for you, because
>without a handle on your business needs, a fair assessment of your
>vulnerabilities, and a workable security policy/plan, you cannot determine
>that. Forget about stats.... they are meaningless. So what if you have a
>gigabyte connection to the Internet, if you run Ethernet to the desktop,
>and
>you are running windows 99 clients, THAT will be your bottleneck, not the
>firewall.
>It has been my experience that NETWORKS and WORKSTATIONS, not FIREWALLS
>are
>where your speed limitations are introduced. Build the best network you
>can
>afford, add in failover etc if you can, then worry about your gateway.
>Chances are, your firewall can handle anything you throw at it without
>breaking a sweat.
>
>Good luck
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 9:09 AM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Perfomance in firewalls
>>
>> Hi Everybody:
>>
>> This the first time I write to this list. I'd like know, in detail,
>about
>> perfomance parameters in firewalls, by example:
>>
>> - Packets per seconds
>> - Throughtput
>> - TCP simultaneus connections
>>
>> How can I interpretate this parameters? If it have one of this, Is
>> possible (making some calculation of course) transform in each other?,
>Are
>> there other perfomance parameters?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>> Fredy R. Santana V.
>> Ingeniero Civil El�ctrico
>> Orion 2000 - Consultor�a en Seguridad y Redes
>> La Concepcion 322 piso 12, Providencia.
>> Fono: 6403944 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Saludos
Fredy R. Santana V.
Ingeniero Civil El�ctrico
Orion 2000 - Consultor�a en Seguridad y Redes
La Concepcion 322 piso 12, Providencia.
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