Options for a 24-port firewall?

Sat Oct 29 13:49:11 PDT 2005

On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 01:21:53PM -0700, Michael T.Halligan wrote:
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> I'm sitting around, analyzing my firewall needs. My needs are pretty  
> simple. I need to be able to throw a lot of customers on their own  
> 100mb firewall ports. Most customers
> will never use more than about 3 mb/s. Given this, I expect the  
> overall throughput for 24 customers, given some flux, to be about  
> 150mb/s.  Ideally, I'd love to throw Linux or
> OpenBSD onto a box that has 1/2 dozen quad ethernet cards.. I'd also  
> like to keep the budget per firewall under $7.5k, which rules out any  
> commerical solution.
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> Given these requirements, am I insane?

The keyword is VLANs as your bandwidth need itself isn't that high.
Even commercial, Netscreen 25 or 50 would come to mind should be
able to handle that.

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Regards, Ulf.

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