[Soekris] net5501 network throughput

[Chris Babcock]

Vincent Li wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> I am thinking to get net5501 installed as transparent firewall for the
> university department network I manage. We are on 100M public network
> and I manage up to 120 computers on the 100M public network.
> 
>  Note that as educational public network, we have lot fo data flowing
> in/out of our network, like downloading/uploading 10 - 100 gigabites
> of of data to/from multiple computers the same time..., music, movies
> streaming....
> 
> Would net5501 be able to handle this 100M public network enviroment?
> 

A 5501 can handle the full bandwidth of 100M links. However whether a 
5501 can handle your environment depends on how complex a ruleset you 
are planning on using for firewalling.

Do you know which OS/firewall package you would like to use? Also, what 
do you have in place for a firewall right now?