Options for a 24-port firewall?

Sat Oct 29 15:01:38 PDT 2005

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Ulf,

You're probably right on that. In an ideal world, I'd just have a  
firewall port for every customer, but
I'm realizing this is just too much of a pie in the sky type  
hope..        Hmm. Back to hoping that
Linux's 802.1q implementation is stable.

Somebody needs to come out with a 144-port firewall.

On Oct 29, 2005, at 1:49 PM, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
> -- 
> Regards, Ulf.
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