Review: Deep Inspection Firewalls
When we set out to investigate the pros and cons of buying the latest and greatest firewall muscle, our scenario was deceptively simple: We built a three-tiered architecture with an Internet, a DMZ and an internal network. Because we were simulating an enterprise setting, we asked vendors to send redundant hardware. We tested VPN throughput with two identical firewalls in a site- to-site gateway configuration. All other testing was performed in high-availability mode with dual firewalls in active-passive configuration. We specified 500-Mbps throughput and the ability to manage and perform under 50, 250 and 500 firewall rules.
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