How Much bandwidth a PIX firewall can handle

[Azeem Dawood]

Hi,

I would like to know, how much bandwidth a PIX firewall can handle. Actually one of our branch office is still having PIX firewall and we have a huge replication going on from head office to this branch.

for temporary purpose we have upgraded the bandwidth to 50 Mbps, but I have noticed that the replication is utilizing only 40 Mbps.

Thanks,

Azeem

[Karsten Iwen]

A PIX can handle from 60 MBit/s (PIX501) up to 1,8 Gbit/s (PIX535). These are the Datasheet-values, so your real-life values will vary. For other models consult the data sheets:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/pix-500-series-security-appliances/datasheet-listing.html