Re: Speed of firewall with AV/DI (Was Re: Small office firewall/vpn/security appliance)

"Somebody." <somebody.@spamout.russdoucet.com> wrote in message
news:Y6v_e.13258$p5.13093@nnrp.ca.mci.com!nnrp1.uunet.ca...
>
> "CCMiami" <nospam@modeldriven.org> wrote in message
> news:ypc_e.70756$Cc5.61492@lakeread06...
> > Based on the note from Russ (below) the speed of the firewall with all
the
> > options turned on is an issue. We would like to have some protection
> > turned on internaly (to the servers in the DMZ) as well as on the
external
> > side in case people pick up viruses and bring them in (we have a lot of
> > people with laptops). We aslo don't want the network running at a
crawl!
<snipped for brevity>

and though bandwidth calculations are good, routers are measured by the
number of packets they can pass per second (pps)... might be good when
shopping around as it's the only REAL measurement off of which to base
performance as far as routers (firewalls, vpn appliances, whatever) and
guage when pricing and comparing.

$0.02.

Ron!
Received on Thu Sep 29 20:11:10 2005