Jason,
I am not sure that you are all that underpowered. If the firewall is all
you are running then you are not that bad off. We are and have been using
about the same config to support 600 SecuRemote users and another 700 or so
regular users. We have double the RAM you do but our performance is pretty
good. We just upgraded to a Nokia box but it is still not much better than
what you have. It does have an accelerator card and that does seem to help.
My understanding is that Checkpoint FW-1 does not utilize dual processors,
maybe someone else can verify this.
Tim Anderson
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Badry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 10:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [FW1] Sizing Recommendations
I currently have a small network with FW1 v4.1 on NT4 (25-user
version). We have used SecureRemote lightly (<5 users), and are looking at
expanding to ~100-150 clients, I'd guess we'll have 50-75 concurrent
connections (and an IKE VPN FW1-Borderware). Right now I'm on a P3-550 IBM
Netfinity w/128MB of ram, but I'm sure this will be far underpowered for
many VPN clients.
What kind of cpu/ram should I be looking for, and will multiple cpus
help? Other considerations are the VPN accelerator cards. The traffic is
client-server to a database, but is fairly light. For example, we run 14
users on a 56K line with no ill effects.
Thanks,
.. Jason Badry
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