Re: 10Gbps IPS - what you need to know

Ravi Chunduru <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ids
Message-ID <[email protected]>
my bad. thanks for correction.

Ravi

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:25 PM, John Jasen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ravi Chunduru wrote:
>> This is impressive.  I wonder what is in there under the hood in McAfee box.
>>
>> Copied from the test report:  "The device ably supported over 11Gbps
>> of traffic with the larger HTTP response sizes (21KB) and lower
>> connections per second (5,000 CPS per Gigabit of traffic) found on
>> typical corporate networks".
>>
>> It appears to be some calcualtion mistake!  It comes to around
>> 820-830Mbps (21Kbytes * 5000 ), not 11Gbps throughput!
>
> Per gigabit of traffic.
>
> At 1Gbps, they would see 820Mbs or so outbound from the servers.
>
> At 10Gbps, they would see 8200 Mbs outboud.
>
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