Depending on your bandwidth requirements, an Ultra 60 with the amount of ram
you are using should be more than adequate for a 200 user shop. Especially
if you are not doing any encryption. If you are looking at future needs and
those include VPN and some level of encryption then you need to start
looking at your CPU speeds. The stronger the level of encryption, i.e.
3des, the more CPU you will need. For just straight throughput Sun has
claimed 1 mb of throughput to 1.5 mhz of CPU so a 300mhz CPU should get you
about 150 mb aggregate throughput. Add FW1 onto that and you see a drop in
throughput. Then you start looking at how complicated your rule set is and
what sort of application your users are doing through your firewall. The
picture gets pretty difficult to equate to a minimum and optimum, that is
why I think you won't find anyone who will give you a straight answer.
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Walker II, Derrik
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 4:00 PM
To: 'Marty Saletta'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [FW1] Sun hardware recommendations?
We use an Ultra 5 for a management server for 2 Ultra 60 firewalls. No
problem. As far as the logs, yes they would be stored on the Ultra 5.
However we move them to a log server.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marty Saletta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 4:38 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [FW1] Sun hardware recommendations?
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>
>
>
> I'm looking for anyone that can provide
> what they think are the *real* min/optimal
> requirements for running FW-1 version 4.1
> on a Sun. The manual doesn't really get
> specific enough as far as CPU speed and
> the such.
>
> I'm looking to protect maybe 100-200 hosts.
> Right now I'm running a single Ultra-60
> with 256MB RAM. We're not doing NAT or VPN
> yet, but I wouldn't want to rule that out.
>
> We're looking to get an HA/load balancing
> solution (that's another subject), but I'm really
> just looking for the Sun hardware at this point.
>
> I'd like to set up three Suns: two to do the
> FW work and a third one to be the management
> station.
>
> Would an Ultra 10 work ok for the other FW and
> perhaps a small Ultra 5 be enough for just
> the management station duties? Where will the
> log files be stored- the management station?
>
> Thanks-
> Marty
>
>
>
> --
> Marty Saletta, System Administrator, Raytheon ITSS Corporation
> NASA Center for Computational Sciences
> Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
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