Don't rememember if this is true or not, but I thought I once saw something
were Firewall 1 did over a 100 mbits with dual ATM adapters. I am thinking
I saw this back in a Sept 96 Data Comm blurb. I need to see if I can
verify
this.
I do know of some testing where an Enterprise 3000 was connected
to a pair of Ultras. The 3000 had an OC-12 along with one of the Ultras.
The other Ultra had an OC-3 in it. Together, the Ultras pushed about
500Mbits
through the 3000. Not too bad!!!
Greg
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> From: Greg Woods <woods @
ucar .
edu>
> To: Sylvain Maret <smaret @
datelec .
com>
> Cc: firewalls @
GreatCircle .
COM
> Subject: Re: ATM adapter for SUN
> Date: Tuesday, March 25, 1997 12:16 PM
>
> > Does every one have already experience with a ATM adapter and what kind
of
> > card do have used ?
>
> We have a Cisco card with a ZeitNet driver, on a Sun Enterprise 3000
> (Solaris 2.5.1). All this technology is new; the documentation we
> got with it is sorely lacking (although our network guy is trying
> to get something from cisco). The card works, in that I have
> successfully configured it and accessed network hosts through it,
> but I have not done any performance testing and we're not using it
> in production.
>
> Aside from the technology being new and the problems associated with
> that, I have my doubts that an Ultra will really be able to handle a
> full 155 megabits plus do all the firewall stuff (but I have not
> personally tried it). An ATM interface might be overkill; FDDI or even
> switched 10Mbps Ethernet might be enough.
>
> --Greg
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