Re: [fw-wiz] Firewall Utilization

From: black@galaxy.silvren.com
Date: 10/15/02 

From: black@galaxy.silvren.com
To: Joe Keegan <joe@jjk3.com>
Date: Tue Oct 15 17:22:01 2002

Nokia IP650 with 256mb mem, 4 port 10/100 nic

Deals with an average of 5-6mbps of traffic during the day (7am-6pm)
CPU utilization is sitting at about 60% right now, but it fluctuates
rather wildly depending on what's going on. Currently I'm getting scanned
and it's also cranking out about about 400 log entries/sec.

Under the same network load when I'm not being scanned, CPU usually sits
at about 20%.

Running Checkpoint 4.1SP3

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Joe Keegan wrote:

> I was curious if anyone would be willing to share the average
> utilization (CPU/Mem) of their firewalls and the average amount of
> traffic they deal with.
>
> After working with a few different companies firewalls, I have found
> that most are under utilized and often less expensive models could of
> sufficed. If you are not willing to share your utilization details,
> could you comment on your general experience with firewall utilization.
>
> Thanks
>
> Joe
>
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