i
don't think FW will take bandwidth either. if your FW machine is too slow
for packet filtering or encryption, it will be a factor to make your internet
access becomes slow. When your manager or your manager's friend told you
this matter, did he show off any proof or document ? Please share it to
us, or otherwise your manager is somewhat nonsense.
andrew.
-----Original Message----- From:
Alexander Fabri [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday,
December 08, 2001 9:22 PM To:
[email protected] Subject: Re: [FW-1]
Checkpoint and Internet bandwidth
Your reaction was the same as mine .. but my manager insisted that this
was true (a friend of his told him so), and he could not accept no as an
answer, and made me doubt as well. By the way I am using FW1 v4.1
SP5 without the 3DES encryption or any other bells and
whistles.
rgds
Alex
You're kidding, right?
First off, Checkpoint is a company, not a product. Secondly,
they've been known to take 40% of my budget at times but never 40% of
available bandwidth. ;)
CP
primarily produces FW and VPN software. Aside from the slight packet
overhead associated with VPNs and encapsulation or possibly the remote
management of the device, can you think of ANY way in which ANY FW product
will chew up bandwidth? For god's sake, think about what a FW does
before asking questions like that.
Chris
Is it true that Checkpoint takes 40%
of your available Internet bandwidth, and if so is there anything that
can be done to reduce
it?
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