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278A/0497 WHITE PAPER (cont.) ... CONCLUSIONS For hardware configurable tests, upgrading the Network Interface Cards from the EISA bus to the PCI bus resulted in noticeable increases in performance. The processor scales well when moving from one processor to two processors, making appreciable increases in performance and increased performance as the load increases. Increasing memory adds slight performance increases. The drive controller tests from EISA Smart-2 Array Controller Raid 0, PCI Smart-2 Array Controller Raid 0 and Raid 5, and ON BOARD PCI Controller gave expected results and minimal performance increases because of performance enhancements made to the firewall to allow log file writes to be done in batch processes instead of writing log file information for every event. Network speed also gave expected results when going from a 100Mb network to 10Mb network. The firewall was able handle throughput of more than 10Mb for both HTTP/FTP and HTTP only transfers. Software configurable tests with HTTP Cache on drew expected increases in performance in both HTTP/FTP and HTTP only tests. This software switch is turned on by default in SmartStart installations of Raptor's Eagle NT 3.06 product to give higher performance using the cache from the time of installation. No DNS Lookups for HTTP displayed slight performance increases for FTP/HTTP transfers but presented high performance increases for greater loads on HTTP Only tests. Expected decreases were noticed in both HTTP/FTP and HTTP only test runs when not using HTTP caching of rules. Differences between HTTP/FTP and HTTP only transfers displayed enormous performance increases for HTTP only transfers showing the added performance enhancements included in Raptor's Eagle NT 3.06 firewall product. This paper gives information about performance enhancements for firewalls using various hardware and software components also take into account the protection and security gained by using a firewall and should notice that there is a performance hit in using a firewall for any environment. As a result, using Compaq servers and adding specific hardware and software components can reduce this performance hit dramatically while increasing overall performance of the firewall for your environment. 23

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278A/0497
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ONCLUSIONS
For hardware configurable tests, upgrading the Network Interface Cards from the EISA bus to the
PCI bus resulted in noticeable increases in performance.
The processor scales well when moving
from one processor to two processors, making appreciable increases in performance and
increased performance as the load increases. Increasing memory adds slight performance
increases. The drive controller tests from EISA Smart-2 Array Controller Raid 0, PCI Smart-2
Array Controller Raid 0 and Raid 5, and ON BOARD PCI Controller gave expected results and
minimal performance increases because of performance enhancements made to the firewall to
allow log file writes to be done in batch processes instead of writing log file information for every
event. Network speed also gave expected results when going from a 100Mb network to 10Mb
network. The firewall was able handle throughput of more than 10Mb for both HTTP/FTP and
HTTP only transfers.
Software configurable tests with HTTP Cache on drew expected increases in performance in both
HTTP/FTP and HTTP only tests. This software switch is turned on by default in SmartStart
installations of Raptor’s Eagle NT 3.06 product to give higher performance using the cache from
the time of installation. No DNS Lookups for HTTP displayed slight performance increases for
FTP/HTTP transfers but presented high performance increases for greater loads on HTTP Only
tests. Expected decreases were noticed in both HTTP/FTP and HTTP only test runs when not
using HTTP caching of rules.
Differences between HTTP/FTP and HTTP only transfers displayed enormous performance
increases for HTTP only transfers showing the added performance enhancements included in
Raptor’s Eagle NT 3.06 firewall product.
This paper gives information about performance enhancements for firewalls using various
hardware and software components also take into account the protection and security gained by
using a firewall and should notice that there is a performance hit in using a firewall for any
environment. As a result, using Compaq servers and adding specific hardware and software
components can reduce this performance hit dramatically while increasing overall performance of
the firewall for your environment.