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Re: [FW-1] 3 quad cards under Solaris
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- Subject: Re: [FW-1] 3 quad cards under Solaris
- From: Volker Tanger <[email protected]>
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 10:22:26 +0100
- Organization: DiSCON GmbH
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Greetings!
Yim Lee wrote:
I have heard that Sun recommends 1 cpu per quad card.
More precize: 1 MHz CPU per Mbit/s on ethernet. So for a (fully loaded)
quad card you'd need 4x 200MHz (2x 100 Mbit/s because full duplex) = 800
MHz. 3 quads = 2,4 GHz.
Theoretically.
FW-1 does filtering in Kernel mode - a single CPU task. So more CPUs
only help with VPN (encryption) and security servers.
Bye
Volker
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Volker Tanger <[email protected]>
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DiSCON GmbH - Internet Solutions
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