[Sunhelp] 100Mhz needed for each port in use

[Tim Conrad]

fwiw...the company i work for has 3 (was 5) internal firewalls running on
Ultra1's (@167 Mhz) with 128mb of ram each with 4 ports being used, and they all
work just fine & dandy.

I imagine, however, if you were pushing 100 Mb on each port of it, all the time,
and routing that information between the interfaces, it'd require a fair amount
of horsepower, but I doubt that much.

Just my $.01 worth.

Tim

Reagen Ward wrote:

> I wonder how that guy sold qfe cards back before these fast CPUs were avail.
> CPU clock speed has little to do with the system's I/O capacity.
>
> Reagen
>
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:11:03PM -0500, Glover, Duke wrote:
> > Hello SUN gods,
> >
> > I was told by a SUN rep that you needed 100Mhz worth of processor for each
> > Ethernet port in use on a qfe card.  In other words, if you wanted to use
> > all 4 Ethernet ports you needed to have 400Mhz worth of processor.  I have
> > been unable to find any documentation supporting this.  Has anyone ever
> > heard this before ?  Or can anyone point me to some documentation that might
> > discuss this.  Is anyone out there running a system using all 4 ports with
> > less than 400Mhz ?
> >
> > AtDhVaAnNkCsE,
> >
> > Duke Glover
> > desk = 813-978-5682
> > page = 888-510-6042
> > duke.glover at verizon.com
> > Verizon / Enterprise Information Protection Services