Potentially, though it will depend on a lot of factors. Appliances
generally don't follow "Moore's Law" the way that server platforms do in
terms of general purpose power. Instead, they use special purpose ASICs
for their special purpose, then a weak general purpose core for doing
things like VRRP and 3/4's of the bullet points on the glossy brochure.
However, if you just wanted that special purpose (e.g. traffic
management), the switches you mention are probably the fastest possible
way to feed traffic into your firewalls. Of course if you want to approach
feature parity with Rainwall you'll need to place two traffic management
switches on every subnet that's directly attached to the firewall cluster,
and you still won't match the scalability.
--
Jack Coates, Rainfinity SE
t: 650-962-5301 m: 650-280-4376
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Mark Ingles wrote:
>
> Wouldn't hardware like Foundry, Radware, Alteon, Arrowpoint or the like be
> faster than software?
> Mark Ingles
>
> At 01:34 PM 7/22/00 , Jules Veloria wrote:
>
> >Another additional point to ponder is that FW-1 performance on NT, Solaris,
> >and Linux can greatly increase when using a software-based solution like
> >Rainwall to cluster additional FW-1 servers.
> >
> >
> >
> >Best regards,
> >
> >Jules Veloria
> >Rainfinity
> >1901 Landings Drive
> >Mountain View, CA 94043
> >(W) 650-404-9824
> >(M) 650-279-8787
> >(F) 650-404-9877
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> >www.rainfinity.com
> >
> > > -----Original Message snipped-----
>
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