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Re: [fw-wiz] Firewall scaling

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Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Firewall scaling
From: "Keith A. Glass" <salgak@speakeasy.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:31:58 +0000
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And if manglement is THAT clueless, you'll need that big a box to handle all 
the sessions from the trojans, spyware, and other crap that manglement and 
their kid brother download onto the company boxes. . . 

My rule: there's no such thing as too big a firewall. . .

And for smaller companies, if you can dedicate part of it to viruses, malware, 
and email de-crapping, all the better.  You don't have the manpower to do the 
jobs right: let the hardware do it for you . . .  .
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcus J. Ranum [mailto:mjr@ranum.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 04:19 PM
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> Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Firewall scaling
> 
> Sami Ghourabi wrote:
> >I'm trying to convince management that a firewall that supports 32000
> >concurrent sessions is enough for an organization that has a single WAN
> >internet link, and about 60-100 users, but I'm lacking arguments.
> 
> 
> Sami - you obviously work for retards. If they need to have arguments
> from their technical staff regarding matters of technical obviousness,
> they clearly don't understand the problem and aren't likely to ever
> understand it.
> 
> My suggestion is that you tell them "Industry Expert Marcus Ranum
> SAYS that for 100 concurrent users you need EXACTLY 3,560
> concurrent session capability."  It's based on a formula that I
> would publish, except that, unfortunately, it was classified by the
> IAEA.
> 
> mjr. 
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