topic Re: Maestro - Connection Acceleration at the MHO in Hyperscale Firewall (Maestro)

Maestro - Connection Acceleration at the MHO

HeikoAnkenbrand — Fri, 14 May 2021 09:43:30 GMT

I heard in a Check Point meeting that there should be a connection acceleration in the MHO in R81.10 SP or higher.

If a connection is assigned a special name in the rule, the MHO acceleration should take effect for it. This means that all TCP ACK packets no longer pass through an appliance, but are forwarded directly in the MHO. For these rules, a kind of access list is created in the MHO, which enables packet forwarding directly in the MHO. Therefore a very high packet throughput is possible.

This feature would be very interesting for one of our customer.

My questions:

Will this feature come?
What is the roadmap here?

Re: Maestro - Connection Acceleration at the MHO

PhoneBoy — Mon, 17 May 2021 04:07:38 GMT

I would think if this was coming as part of the R81.10 GA, we'd see mention of it in the various EA announcements.
It certainly sounds like a useful feature.

Re: Maestro - Connection Acceleration at the MHO

Lari_Luoma — Tue, 18 May 2021 05:38:17 GMT

There is no official comitment, but according to the R&D the timeline will be around R81.20.

Re: Maestro - Connection Acceleration at the MHO

HeikoAnkenbrand — Tue, 18 May 2021 07:34:04 GMT

Hi @PhoneBoy,
Hi @Lari_Luoma,

Thanks for the quick reply!

I think this is a very good performance feature in 40 Gbps and 100Gbps networks.
Then I have to wait until R81.10, R81.20 SP:-)