The better the PCI, the better a PC/Pentium will run than the older
MBus Bus design of the SS5, SS10 and SS20's. The SS's all only run a
80 to 100mb (only ss20 at 100mbit) on the peripherals bus and anywhere
from 300 to 500mbits on the cpu / i/o controller bus. Yes a good Pentium
can outperform a SS5 (and an older SS20) pretty handily in many aspects...
however for most upscale Firewall's I'll use the Ultra and its 1.3gbit
switched bus. I honestly think
in either instance that you can do well as long as you have a comfortable
feel for how the I/O bus handles throughput - and at 1.5mbits, I don't
think there is much to worry about for either an SS5 or a PCI based Pentium.
As for the comment that Firewall-1 is insecure - its only as secure as
you build it - and frankly, Gauntlet, Sidewinder and all firewall's
included - not a one of them is impenetrable - unless of course you don't
let anything through at all (and unplug the line....) Sun and Checkpoint
have never had any such rumors circling around so lets lay that one to
rest please. I've had good and bad experiences with all three of these
firewall products and they all have their points....and each have their
rumors surrounding them....but so far I've been happier with Firewall-1
than the rest....but then there are many other design issues besides just
the canned product itself (OS config, proxies, alternative daemons....)
On Sun, 29 Sep 1996, Scanner wrote:
> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 12:15:49 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Scanner <scanner @
webspan .
net>
> To: sthaug @
nethelp .
no
> Cc: firewalls @
GreatCircle .
COM
> Subject: Re: SOLARIS x86 as firewall platform?
>
> On Sun, 29 Sep 1996 sthaug @
nethelp .
no wrote:
>
> > [Adam Safier <asafier @
csc .
com>]
> >
> > | Rummor has it that a Pentium 200 running SOLARI x86 2.5.1 will outperform
> > | a SPARCStation 5. But a SPARCStation 5 can have 9 ethernet interfaces
> > | (motherboard + 2 quad cards) while a Pentium usually has a limited number
> > | of free slots. (I know about specialty motherboards but am trying to
> > | stick to a "common" platform.)
>
> This amazes you? I/O on sparcs is not that great. Our main server a P-100
> with 64 Megs of ram and FreeBSD can put our totally unused just sits there
> SS20 with 128 megs of ram to shame. For I/O, and memory writes. Im not
> saying sparcs are trash just that there not as whoopy as one would think.
>
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