I've got a PIX 10000 at home that I'll be installing soon. Do you think that ought to work for a single-user household? ;-)
John ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag ---- On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Chuck Larrieu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I sure love slow days like today. I've discovered a whole new section on > the > company intranet - a group that does performance and acceptability > testing > for vendor equipment which we sell. > > So I'm looking over the firewall report - Cisco 515 versus several other > things. > > I have never seen or heard this before, but according to this doc, > Checkpoint on a Nokia 330 box outperformed the PIX 515 substantially. by > about 20% in terms of throughput. I have always heard that PIX > outperforms > Checkpoint by a large margin. Maybe that was when compared to Checkpoint > on > a Windoze box? > > Interesting to see in the results was that the Cisco 1601 with IP > firewall > feature set outperformed the Cisco 2610 by a decent ( but not > overwhelming ) > margin. The PIX 515 looks to be about 50% faster than the 1601 and twice > as > fast as the 2610. > > The PIX 515 was about twice as fast, in terms of throughput, than the > $500 > Netscreen 5XP ( low end ) firewall > > Granted, the testbed was limited in that there were just a few stations > on > the inside trying to get to just a few stations on the outside. Traffic > simulation was used for different types of traffic ( http, ftp, etc ) > Granted there are other issues, such as scalability. > > Still, it sure looks to be an interesting year ahead, in the security > products market. > > Happy New Year, everyone! > > Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=30580&t=30580 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
