Juniper Srx 5800: Biggest Firewall Ever

摘要

If the Guinness Book of World Records had an entry for "biggest firewall ever;"Juniper's SRX 5800 would qualify In our exclusive Clear Choice test, this hulking brute of a machine sped traffic at rates approaching 140Gbps through its 16 l0Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, making it by far the largest and fastest firewall anyone has ever tested. But "biggest" isn't the same as "most capable." For example, enabling intrusion prevention caused forwarding rates to drop to 30Gbps,even when handling benign traffic. And there were issues with security policy management. The Network and Security Manager (NSM) appliance Juniper supplied doesn't yet accept security alerts from the SRX. In other words, it's a security management platform that won't say how or even whether the network is under attack.