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| 05:32.54 | bigdog_ut | evening all |
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| 15:58.08 | mindjuju | man, where is DW when you need him? |
| 15:58.16 | mindjuju | anybody else here do firewalls? |
| 15:59.19 | wps | yes |
| 15:59.25 | wps | action: click "start firewall" |
| 15:59.30 | wps | done |
| 15:59.48 | mindjuju | :) |
| 16:00.01 | wps | but that's about where my experience and expertise end :) |
| 16:00.13 | wps | I wish I knew more about firewalls though |
| 16:00.26 | mindjuju | talking to somebody who said i don't get a throughput penalty by incorporating a pix 501, but that doesn't sound right |
| 16:00.51 | mindjuju | i should check the cisco site to see what they say |
| 16:02.07 | macnewbold | mindjuju: a good firewall (pix are pretty good) will not do much to your throughput |
| 16:02.19 | macnewbold | but it depends how fast of a connection you're firewalling |
| 16:02.25 | macnewbold | how fast is the connection? |
| 16:02.32 | mindjuju | 100mb |
| 16:02.43 | mindjuju | its a video streaming server |
| 16:02.46 | macnewbold | this firewalls to the internet, right? How fast is that connection? |
| 16:03.33 | mindjuju | right, firewall to sit in front of video stream server |
| 16:03.36 | macnewbold | it also depends on what you're telling the pix to do - content filtering can slow things down some, but that would be outgoing not incoming |
| 16:03.43 | macnewbold | how fast is the internet connection that it uses? |
| 16:03.45 | macnewbold | not 100MB |
| 16:04.01 | macnewbold | the internet uplink is going to be your bottleneck |
| 16:04.16 | macnewbold | well, I guess it could be 100Mb, if it's coloc'd at someplace like XM |
| 16:04.44 | macnewbold | but you're not going to be serving at 100Mb unless you're paying extremely big bucks for your bandwidth, in which case you should probably be your own ISP |
| 16:04.44 | mindjuju | sorry, somebody asked question here. actually since we wanted phat pipe, we got a server at rackspace |
| 16:04.52 | macnewbold | k |
| 16:05.01 | mindjuju | so, as far as i know, it is 100mb to the box |
| 16:05.14 | macnewbold | I don't know what kind of plan you're on, or how they bill you for your bandwidth used, |
| 16:05.22 | macnewbold | but you won't be serving it up at 100Mb |
| 16:05.33 | macnewbold | your streaming video server wouldn't be able to send that fast, I bet |
| 16:05.38 | macnewbold | so don't worry about the firewall |
| 16:05.53 | macnewbold | basic rules are these: turn off anything that you don't need, |
| 16:06.05 | macnewbold | and keep an eye on all the places that may be the bottleneck: |
| 16:06.30 | macnewbold | the hard drives, the server CPU, server RAM, server ethernet output, |
| 16:06.44 | macnewbold | firewall input, firewall output, and your internet uplink |
| 16:07.18 | macnewbold | do you know about how many GB of traffic they're planning to have in a month or something? |
| 16:07.20 | jsmith | Keep an eye on the firewall CPU and firewall connection count as well... |
| 16:07.41 | macnewbold | (XM plans come with a GB quota, for example) |
| 16:08.32 | macnewbold | in order to get 10GB of traffic in a day, you'll be peaking out at about 4Mbps (given a normal-looking traffic graph) |
| 16:08.51 | macnewbold | you'll not come near 100Mbps for quite a while, I'd bet |
| 16:08.57 | macnewbold | so for now, just hook it up |
| 16:09.08 | macnewbold | then if there's a problem, you've first got to find out what it is, then you can address it |
| 16:09.25 | macnewbold | but chances of it being the firewall I'd say are lower than chances of it being the server in some way |
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