[Soekris] net5501 network throughput

[Stuart Henderson]

On 2008-07-05, Chris Babcock <cbabcock at utiliware.com> wrote:
> 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.

Besides ruleset, it also depends a lot on how many packets per
second, and assuming a stateful firewall, how many of those have
to traverse the whole ruleset. 5501 is pretty tight for a link
you *expect* to run at 100Mb/s.