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Re: [fw-wiz] Firewall scaling

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Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Firewall scaling
From: "K K" <kkadow@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:54:41 -0500
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I say you need two, as a failover cluster.


On 6/23/07, Sami Ghourabi <sami.ghourabi@online-netsecurity.com> 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.

I've not heard of a commercial firewall which only supports 32K
concurrent sessions, is this some sort of weird limited license cap
imposed by the vendor?

Ancient OpenBSD 'pf' running on a i386 with 128MB was able to do
upwards of 50,000 states back in the v3.6 days.

Kevin
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