[c-nsp] PIX 535 capabilites

[Alban Dani]

I am not sure yet what kind of traffic I am looking at yet.

I am just trying to be proactive and get as much info as I can.

Thank you very much,

Alban

On 9/11/06, Elijah Savage <esavage at digitalrage.org> wrote:
>
> Please make sure you understand these numbers and the methodology that
> Cisco
> used to obtain them. Meaning these are in an environment where the average
> packets size is 1500bytes in size. If you have an environment where your
> applications are not taking advantage of that then it can be a lot less, I
> mean a lot less. But this is no difference than any other firewall
> manufacturer. I have seen telnet traffic and web traffic along with ftp
> between a dmz interface and lan interface bring a 535 to it's knees and
> the
> data came no where close to 1.7gig.
>
>
> > From: Juan Angel Menendez <juan at mecon.gov.ar>
> > Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:28:31 -0300
> > To: Alban Dani <albcisco at gmail.com>, "cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net"
> > <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
> > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] PIX 535 capabilites
> >
> >
> >          According to Cisco:
> >
> > Firewall Performance
> > Cisco PIX 501: 60 Mbps
> > Cisco PIX 506E: 100 Mbps
> > Cisco PIX 515E: 190 Mbps
> > Cisco PIX 525: 330 Mbps
> > Cisco PIX 535: 1.7 Gbps
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_data_sh
> > eet09186a00801daa53.html
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > At 18:15 11/09/2006, Alban Dani wrote:
> >
> >> We have a PIX 535 running 6.3(5)106 with 1Gb of RAM.
> >> Right now it is using 7% of it.
> >> A new application coming online soon will be putting through the PIX
> about
> >> 17MB/sec of streaming data.
> >>
> >> Would the PIX be able to handle that?
> >>
> >>
> >> Alban
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> cisco-nsp mailing list  cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp
> >> archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > cisco-nsp mailing list  cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp
> > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
>
>
>