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From: Askar <askarali@gmail.com>
To: netfilter <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: ram and processor cycles for a firewall machine
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 12:35:15 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a0f69e504093023354ec7c59e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

hi all,
im in the process of changing my fw machine for that atm im simulating
and testing. I got a very fair question
1) How much RAM and and processor would be best for moderate firewall box?
Unfortunatly currently my company running the fw on a P-III 500MHz
with 128MB of RAM.
I am wondering if I change to default DROP things (atm its default
ACCEPT) aren't these specification kinda makes problem?

right now 75 users online the /proc/net/ip_conntrack shows 

egrep 'ESTABLISHED|ASSURED' /proc/net/ip_conntrack | wc -l
   4888
cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack | wc -l
   6511

well these number would probably little higher when 120 users online.
Is my current fw machine specs adequate for such ip_conntrack load?

regards
Askar
(after bouncing head on desk for days trying to get mine working, I'll make
your life a little easier)


             reply	other threads:[~2004-10-01  6:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-01  6:35 Askar [this message]
2004-10-01 11:53 ` ram and processor cycles for a firewall machine Jose Maria Lopez
2004-10-01 13:37 ` Jason Opperisano
2004-10-01 19:29   ` Askar
2004-10-01 20:18     ` Mike
2004-10-01 21:09       ` Aleksandar Milivojevic
2004-10-02  6:19         ` Askar
2004-10-03 23:20           ` Mike
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-01 20:55 Daniel Chemko

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