[c-nsp] pix 525 cps, real world traffic rates?

[Laurent Geyer]

On 3/17/06, matthew zeier <mrz at velvet.org> wrote:
>
>
> I can't find good numbers for the PIX 525's performance in the real
> world.  Cisco's literature only mentions "cleartext" throughput of
> 330Mbps and 280k concurrent connections but doesn't mention anything
> about connections/second or what sort of traffic I can expect with a
> reasonable set of access-lists applied.


Can't speak on the number of connections, but from a throughput perspective
those numbers are pretty close to reality. Where I work we've seen ~300Mbps
without much of a performance hit.

Real world 3DES VPN traffic rates I've seen were just around 135Mbps with
~40% CPU utilization. Again pretty close to the quoted 140Mbps by Cisco.


Does anyone have more real world experience with this box?
>
> Anyone know if it also does SSL VPNs or WebVPNs?


None of the PIXs support SSL/WebVPN, unfortunately.


thanks.
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