Re: Checkpoint FW-1 & ATM performance degradation

[Pere Camps]

Carl,

> I've used FW1 with a ForeRunner PCA200E NIC. It was running at OC-3
> 155Mbps and a couple times I saw the traffic as high as 130Mbps. The
> firewall was handling the traffic nicely, but the NIC drivers were
> reporting an increasing number of "large buffer failures". Not sure if
> that means that FW1 was not handling the packets quickly enough and
> the cells were getting dropped or what.

This was with NT, right? Mmm... it looks like it's 130 Mbps max
then. Interesting. That way if I load balance only two decent machines I'd
be all set.

Great. Thanks for the info.

Regards,

-- p.

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