The Firewall is needed in order to protect communication networks from ill effects of informatization such as information leakage, destruction, forgery and virus. To take an advantage of the firewall, the security manager must understand the effects that it can have on the network. There airs, however, no tools available to evaluate the performance of the firewall. In this paper, we study the effect of the firewall by putting various kinds of traffic into the actual network. Also, using COMNET- III, we model two networks with and without the firewall. And we analyze the effects under the various network envion-ments