To me this seems pretty light on the drive space, especially with 40 remotes. We use all HP gear, 148 Gig x 15000 rpm drives. Is the 80 Gig the best Dell offers?
-----Original Message----- From: cisco4ng [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 6:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [FW-1] dual CPU versus Quad CPU box for Super Secureplatform Firewall I would like to build a super SPLAT box. This box will have 4GB of RAM on it with RAID 1 80GB disk storage. This super SPLAT box will be managed by my provider-1 NG with AI R55W. This box will be a VPN hubs to about 40 remote VPN devices (mainly Cisco Pix and VPN Concentrators) and remote access VPN using AES-256/DH-5/SHA-1. We're talking about 400 Mbps VPN throughput. At the moment, I have the option of going with either a dual CPU machine or a quad cpu machine (dell in both cases). We're talking about Xeon processors With SPLAT, I have the option to use the other CPUs for VPN Encryption/Decryption. What should I go with? Dual Processor or Quad processor box? Can SPLAT take advantage of quad CPU machine or dual CPU can handle the task? I don't see any bench mark testing on dual versus quad CPU box on SPLAT. Thanks. P.S. We're talking about redundancies in this configuration and we might talk about going Active/Active with ClusterXL __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ================================================= To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================= ================================================= To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================
