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Subject: Re: FW-1 Performance
From: Mike Jones <mike . jones @ unifiedtech . com>
Organization: Unified Technologies, Inc.
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 11:50:04 -0400
To: Frank Post <fpost @ metronet . de>
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
References: <Pine . GSO . 3 . 96 . 970708091507 . 21734A-100000 @ habakuk . metronet . de>

Frank Post wrote:
> Is it possible that FW-1 v2.0 on a Sun Ultra-1 needs 60% of the
> Systems
> CPU Performance, when it is connected to an 6MBit/s Internet Link ?
> Even if there are no Rules in (only to Log all other Port than http),
> and
> the DNS Resolution of Logging is Disabled ?

Anything is possible, but it's certainly very unlikely. I was at
a customer site yesterday who has a T1 line going to a FW-1 on
a Sun Ultra 1. Behind the Firewall is their mail server and a
Web server handling over 50K hits/day. We've never seen the 
CPU %idle under about 95-97%.
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