[SunHELP] Firewall1

[Will Mc Donald]

From: <bscanlan at irish-times.com>

> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:34:08PM -0000, Will Mc Donald wrote:
> >
> > Isn't Sun's party line that you should have a processor per network
> > interface where possible?
>
> Nah. You need to give a fully performing HME about 90mhz of an UltraSparc,
> so if you're planning to SunTrunk a QFE, you should spec out a dedicated
> CPU for the QFE card.
>
> Brian.

We won't be trunking/bonding the Ethernet interfaces.

Erk, ~ 90MHz per port? This machine's running with one 170 MHz processor at
the moment. Having said that it does cope well with the load. I was just
wondering if there was any inherent reason why you shouldn't add processors
to boxes running FW-1, I didn't/doesn't seem to make sense.

Will.