Trying to decide which appliance to get
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Hello,
As the title suggests, I have narrowed my decision down to two devices to buy new. My question is, when considering inter-vlan routing should I be looking at the appliance's capable L3 forwarding speed or the firewall speed on the spec sheets?
This appliance will be routing about 6 different vlans. Some will have firewall rules (Guest, Management). I want to make sure I don't buy the lower end appliance if it's going to bottleneck the routing.
Thanks in advance! -
@itmotohunter said in Trying to decide which appliance to get:
Hello,
As the title suggests, I have narrowed my decision down to two devices to buy new. My question is, when considering inter-vlan routing should I be looking at the appliance's capable L3 forwarding speed or the firewall speed on the spec sheets?
This appliance will be routing about 6 different vlans. Some will have firewall rules (Guest, Management). I want to make sure I don't buy the lower end appliance if it's going to bottleneck the routing.
Thanks in advance!Considering the box needs to apply both actions when moving packets from one VLAN to another, neither number is really realistic. So expect it to perform well below the lower of those peak numbers.
