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Are there Linux drivers available for any of the hardware encryption cards? If not, I'd be interested to see a 650 w/ hardware acceleration stacked up to a Linux machine when there's a heavy VPN load. -----Original Message----- From: Firewall Admin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 1:21 PM To: Chris Trudeau; [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FW1] choice bw nt or linux But if you compared apples to apples and had a Nokia box with dual Xeon processors it would most likely kick Linux's butt. The performance figures on CPs web site show the IP650 with SINGLE PIII 700 and 256MB pushing 240Mbps. Just my two pence worth. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Trudeau" <[email protected]> To: "Brett Lymn" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 12:19 PM Subject: Re: [FW1] choice bw nt or linux > > As I was then... > > I did not actually SEE the results, although I would very much like to be involved > in the benchmarking of the different solutions. I definitively HAVE seen postings > and otherwise indicating that a comparable Solaris Solution (processor etc) was > used int he test and was beaten by some crazy percentage... > > Nokia boxes were also tested in the same benchmark and were also beaten. I can > easily go out and find a redundant power supply 19" rack mountable Intel based > hardware solution for about $4500, install RH 6.X and Checkpoint on the box and it > will beat an Existing Nokia platform in most tests... > > I agree that the Linux Stack has a way to go to be as efficient, but $4500 for a > linux solution which does in fact SMOKE a $30,000 Nokia solution is a nice price > point for a lot of people. > > The point I suppose I SHOULD have made is the "bang-for-the-buck" one. The linux > solution far and away provides more bang for the buck than ANY of the other > solutions. > > CT > > Brett Lymn wrote: > > > According to Chris Trudeau: > > > > > > > > >and IMHO the reports I hear is that a tuned linux kernel running Checkpoi= > > >nt SMOKES > > >the competition, including Nokia, and ANYTHIN on NT... > > > > Uhhhh ``I doubt it'' the processor in the linux box used in the > > testing may have been a lot faster than the processor in the Nokia > > giving you an inflated figure. The linux tcp/ip stack still has a way > > to go in terms of performance, I am reasonably certain that it beats > > the NT implementation but as for beating the BSD IP stack... I think not. > > > > >May be spoiled, but= > > > routing > > >issues are normally easier to troublshoot as is remote management of the = > > >OS and many > > >other factors when one uses a linux or *nix mased solution. > > > > > > > secure, remote access is something the *nix solutions do do better > > than NT. > > > > >And in this case it is supposedly so much faster too... > > > > > > > I would crank up the salt mine on that one. > > > > -- > > ============================================================================ === > > Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, BAE SYSTEMS > > ============================================================================ === > > > > ============================================================================ ==== > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at > http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html > ============================================================================ ==== > ============================================================================ ==== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ============================================================================ ==== ================================================================================ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================================================
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