Abstract

INTOTO, Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the iGateway Firewall. iGateway Firewall is a software-based carrier grade/large enterprise firewall that provides high-performance and scalability while running on off-the-shelf, general purpose Intel multi-core hardware platforms. The software includes stateful inspection with packet integrity checks, access policies, content filtering, local proxy redirection and DDoS attack prevention. Testing focused on evaluating firewall performance with stateful inspection and access policies.

Tests measured the zero-loss (≤0.001%) aggregate UDP throughput with multiple simultaneous sessions and HTTP connection rate with different policy matching for its eight-core, quad-core and dual-core systems. Tests were conducted in November 2007.