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Re: [fw-wiz] Firewall scaling

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Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Firewall scaling
From: "Pollock, Joseph" <PollockJ@evergreen.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:09:45 -0700
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Thread-topic: [fw-wiz] Firewall scaling
I want to second this comment.  With p2p software running on clients in
our dorms, I've seen 3500+ connections from individual computers.  And
the social networking sites are almost as bad, loading data from dozens
or hundreds of sites on a single page. I just saw a report that some of
them generate several hundred DNS queries from a single page load.  We
have the data flow restricted, but the connections still get
established.

If you're a business site, though, you likely have more control over the
local desktop.

Joe Pollock
Network Services

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>
> it depends very much what the traffic pattern for those users is.
> it's not that hard to generate 32k connections with 100 pcs :)

Right, especially if you have dorms full of college students running 
bittorrent.

Jason Mishka - "I'm like a Subway in a land of McDonalds..."

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