From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric Ferguson" Subject: Max concurrent sessions with stateful inspection Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:24:40 -0400 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <002801c351e6$f5fef2c0$3a00a8c0@266desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0029_01C351C5.6EED52C0" Return-path: Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0029_01C351C5.6EED52C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi everyone, I was curious if there were any guidelines for max concurrent sessions for IPtables. I would assume that this would be broken down into 2 numbers - establishes sessions and new sessions. Is there a matrix on how CPU / memory affect these numbers? I am positioning IPtables and fwbuilder as a competitor to other solutions and would like to speak intelligently on this. Thanks, Eric Ferguson - NNCSE ------=_NextPart_000_0029_01C351C5.6EED52C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Max concurrent sessions with stateful inspection

Hi = everyone,

I was = curious if there were any guidelines for max concurrent = sessions for IPtables.  I would assume that this would be broken = down into 2 numbers – establishes sessions and new sessions.  Is there a matrix on how = CPU / memory affect these numbers?  I am positioning IPtables and fwbuilder as a = competitor to other solutions and would like to speak = intelligently on this.

Thanks,

Eric Ferguson - = NNCSE

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