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Re: [FW-1] Firewall limitations



Stephen,

Your HW config sounds like a waste of resources for this case... Here is a
good place to start digging for information and specs:
http://www.checkpoint.com/products/security/vpn-1_firewall-1_performance.htm
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Igor Prokopinskiy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Holland, Stephen [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 11:11 AM
> To:   [email protected]
> Subject:      [FW-1] Firewall limitations
>
> I am trying to find out what FW-1 limitations.  Limitations I would be
> interested in would be how many socket/flows/connections can the state
> table handle before the firewall is slow or dies.  What is the amount of
> "hits" per second can FW-1 can handle and make stateful decisions about
> before it is slow or fails?  I know there will be some limitation by
> bandwidth, OS, and hardware, but lets say you are running on a SUN 4500
> with 4 processors, 4 gigs of ram, Solaris 2.7 with a three legged design
> thus giving you 100mb to ISP, DMZ, and internal LAN.
>
> Does anyone have a good link or knowledge of this kind of information?

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