RE: [FW1] Firewall-1 on Sun 220R, any problems?

[agetchel@FW1-NOSPAMkde.state.ky.us]

Hi Carric,
	Thanks for your comments!  We will be logging to an external
management server (two of them actually) with plenty of disk space.  We are
seeing right around 45k sessions currently on our firewall (RS/6000 running,
of course, AIX), with a rather large rulebase, but will be splitting the
load up among both of the boxes we are planning to get.  When you said you
see 20% utilization at 20k connections, did you mean for one box or a
combined total for both of them?

Thanks,
Abe

PS-I noticed that a few notes have come across this list from Lance
Spitzner.  I saw him present a couple of firewall sessions last week at the
SANS conference in New Orleans.  If you all get the chance, definitely check
it out, he's a great presenter and the material he covers is great.  Two
thumbs up overall for the SANS people on a great conference!

Abe L. Getchell - Security Engineer
Division of System Support Services
Kentucky Department of Education
VoiceE-mail  agetchel@kde.state.ky.us
Web     http://www.kde.state.ky.us/



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carric Dooley [mailto:carric@com2usa.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 4:52 PM
> To: agetchel@kde.state.ky.us; fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com
> Subject: Re: [FW1] Firewall-1 on Sun 220R, any problems?
> 
> 
> I think the problem you will run into unless you have an internal mgt
> console with lots of disk is space. You can only put 2 drives 
> in a 220R. If
> it's just an engine, I have a site using a pair of 220R's 
> with dual 450Mhz
> CPU's - 1G of RAM (it never uses more than about 280MB), and 
> it seems to
> work fine (haven't seen more than about 15K-20K simultaneous 
> connections
> yet, but it coasts at that load... maybe 15%-20% utilization. 
> It is a small
> policy too though [16 rules]).
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <agetchel@kde.state.ky.us>
> To: <fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 4:15 PM
> Subject: [FW1] Firewall-1 on Sun 220R, any problems?
> 
> 
> >
> > Hi all,
> > Has anyone installed Firewall-1 on a E220R?  How well do these boxes
> > perform under a heavy load?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Abe
> >
> > Abe L. Getchell - Security Engineer
> > Division of System Support Services
> > Kentucky Department of Education
> > Voice> > E-mail  agetchel@kde.state.ky.us
> > Web     http://www.kde.state.ky.us/
> >
> >
> >
> >
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