"Noonan, Wesley" wrote:
>
> > Yes. In a mail that has yet to reach the list (?!?), I listed these
>
> That has happened to me a few time of late...
Hrmmm... wonder what's going on over at gnac.
> > > It scales something fierce, both up and out. I've read reports of
> > > it scaling out to 32 nodes and over 1Gbps in bandwidth.
> >
> > I know of several firewalls that give you that performance with
> > a single box. And don't even get me started on the TCO for those
> > 32 boxes.
>
> What kind of box?
Hm. Example: PIII 1000 with 64MB of RAM.
(aka Dell 1550 1U rackmount. Damn fine machine if I may say so.)
(also aka one of the faster PIXen I believe, but with a new front
and a different price tag ;))
> The numbers I saw were on PIII 700's with 512MB of RAM.
> Point taken on the TCO (but then again, Solaris boxes don't always come
> cheap in a server form either... and we won't even get into what I have read
> about Checkpoint's incredible licensing fees... may be the only thing thing
> worse than ISA's per proc licensing agreement...)
All too true. I'll go flame them too when I'm done here :)
> No, not pro's as much as "these are thing things that 'real' firewalls are
> supposed to do, and it does". When people make the flawed comparison to
> Proxy, I think the illumination they provide is relevant.
Point taken. Although you still don't get a point ;)
> You lose base here.
Yes, the latter half of the mail definately went down hill.
Sorry 'bout that. I started reading another sub-thread of this topic
before I finished my response. (You get one guess as to which one.)
I'll see if I can phrase something more coherent tomorrow morning.
... or whenever I wake up after this bout of list posting. :)
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