MartC-n Coco wrote: > > Hi misc, > > I'm currently looking for hardware alternatives for firewalls that > should have more than four NICs. > > Currently we are buying R200s from Dell, but we have the 4 NIC > limitation. We could tell Dell to install a quad port NIC (in addition > to the two-port onboard card), but I haven't read good things about the > way they work. > > I've also looked into soekris, but they don't seem to have enough CPU > for what we want (this is pure speculation) as we also have intense > IPSec traffic on some of these firewalls (I've seen that some of them > could have encryption boards added to increase performance, but I don't > know if it works for any kind of protocol, or at what rate). > > In any case, what I would like to have is firewalls with multiple NICs > (at least 6 NICs) *and* sufficient CPU to let IPSec work alright at > least at ~50Mbps (internal backbone firewalls). The multiple NICs are to > use trunk, pfsync, real network interfaces, etc. > > Thanks, > Martmn. > > > Hi Gang, well heres my 3 cents, first why use a stupid PC (any os) for routing...... REALY BAD jue,jue brake down and buy a old Cisco 7200, 7500, 3600 they are all very good routers, I used a 7500 for a while and now use a 3640 i use pf as a transparent bridge behind my router.. and protects my servers I have 3 nics, (world, dmz, ssh)
you could put up a firewall before your router and put everything out one vlan to the router. and I have a cisco 2900-xl-en switch with 3 vlans on it... and no bleeding.. enjoy Crazy Cris :working: -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Hardware-recommendation-for-firewalls-%28more-than-4-NI Cs%29-tp18413703p18899631.html Sent from the openbsd user - misc mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
