PS, Mark Decker -- If you are interested, I have the equipment and software
to do a real NT/Linux/Nokia same hardware comparison for speed in vpn and
firewall. I would be interested in coordinating with you (as you
probably have some experience doing throughput testing) to make sure I
have the right methodology and that it is vendor non-specific.
After looking at the Nokia site and specifications, it
does not look like Nokia supports Gig cards(unless the information on the
site is not up to date) so that would be an accurate comparison. If one
company does not support Gig cards and the other does, that is their choice
and they be faulted for it. These are then honest results because they
compare technology that each company supports.
What was surprising in the comparison on the checkpoint
site is that the Linux and RS/6000 systems had 2 Gig cards in them and
the NT, Nokia and Solaris system only had 4x10/100 cards. They should redo
the test with both the NT and Solaris systems with Gig cards for an accurate
comparison. I'll bet the Nokia system falls to the bottom of the list then.
The link again for those that don't know: http://www.checkpoint.com/products/firewall-1/pbrief.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Stala [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 7:20 AM
To: Larry Pingree; Tim Holman; Tim Anderson;
[email protected]
Subject: RE: [FW1] Nokia vs. NT
I have seen these numbers. I was amazed until I noticed
that they were
running 10/100 on Nokia and Gig cards on the NT system.
I also had someone telling me that Lynx on an Intel chipset
kicked but on a
Sun Solaris. They showed me the statistics. The Lynx
box was using Gig cards
and the Sun Solaris had a quad 10/100.
These are not honest results unless they are using the
same equipment. Gig
cards are always going to kick the heck out of 10/100
cards
Thomas Stala
[email protected]
Hope this helps
