Re: Sizing a firewall

Subject: Re: Sizing a firewall
From: R. DuFresne (dufresnesysinfo.com)
Date: Thu Dec 30 1999 - 12:27:20 CST

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First off a t1 is not enough pipe for that many clients...

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Walt Sullivan wrote:

> I'm consulting for a Canadian government agency that plans to allow
> desktop access to the Internet for the first time next year (yes, I
> know, "Forward into the 70's", but is is government).
>
> They think they have about 25,000 desktops (Windows 95/98, shudder).
>
> How can I help them predict the amount of traffic they'll see on their
> T1 connection?
>
> Is there anybody out there running a firewall for 25K desktops that is
> willing to share an order-of-magnitude guess?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Walt
>
>

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