On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 03:35:24AM +0200, Kapetanakis Giannis wrote: > On 17/02/10 03:16, FRLinux wrote: > > >Mmmh, you picked my interest here. You mentioned your cisco 6500 but I > >guess you are going to use only gigabit NICs, so you have no need on > >the 10gb range? Just asking, not trying to start a war :) > > > >Cheers, > >Steph >
> ps. the cisco crawled when I enabled IOS firewall features (statefull). > Firewall interface == $35K.... come one now... Too much money! > The 6500 and 7600 cisco systems are not able to do stateful firewalling in HW and have also issues with stuff like netflow exports. Unless you buy the super expensive line cards. Even the big SUP boards come with a tiny CPU running at the speed of a loongson -- those can be killed with a few Mbps of multicast traffic. -- :wq Claudio
