I don't know too much about the Nokia boxes, but have done quite a bit of work on Pix's. I witnessed the 515 fail at between 20-30 mbs (a documented bug). I found that to be very lame. Also, did quite a bit of testing with cisco on the PIX 535. If anyone cares to see when that thing fails....let me know. You might be suprised :)
ms --- Eric wrote: > The Checkpoint/Nokia 330 runs IPSO as the OS on > hardened freeBSD. These will > actually run routing protocols too, i.e.., RIP, > OSPF, IGRP, etc.... Nice GUI > too...They do dominate their market segment. > > Eric > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chuck Larrieu" > To: > Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 1:50 PM > Subject: OT - Firewall performance Comparisons - is > it quitting time > [7:30576] > > > > 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] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=30590&t=30590 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
