Firewalls grace under pressure

["Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist () ekahuna com>]

As per this article:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28503.html


I'd sure like to know what boxes they are using for firewalls.

Not passing traffic when under attack is one thing - spontaneous 
resets is another.  I seem to recall seeing this with Netscreens in 
the past, and Sonicwalls sometimes just lockup which require you to 
reset them - with the same end result.  The problem with such 
behaviour is that you can lose all logs of what was going on, leaving 
you with little to track the problem down with. (unless you're 
logging to an external syslog server, etc)


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Philip J. Koenig                                       
pjklist () ekahuna com
Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New 
Millenium


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