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Re: Botnets, IRC servers and firewalls?
From: Abe Singer <abe () sdsc edu>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 15:57:33 -0800
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 06:49:26PM -0500, Paul Robertson wrote:
Router and firewall performance stats are a blackhole- it's easy to skew the numbers.
As Marcus' cat well knows. But I'd love to have something on paper to shove in the network "engineer's" face.
If you start with permits for traffic to the default Web port and SSL port, and your internal nameservers, you're 90% of the way there, and the router's going to do just fine. Spread the load back to earlier routers, or between the router and the firewall, and you'll do even better...
<cough> What firewall? <cough> <cough> ( cf: "Life Without Firewalls" ;login: December 2003, vol 28, #6 ) :-) _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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- Re: Botnets, IRC servers and firewalls? Marcus J. Ranum (Feb 04)
- Re: Botnets, IRC servers and firewalls? Paul Robertson (Feb 04)
- Re: Botnets, IRC servers and firewalls? Joseph S D Yao (Feb 05)
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- Re: Botnets, IRC servers and firewalls? Marcus J. Ranum (Feb 04)
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- Re: Botnets, IRC servers and firewalls? Paul Robertson (Feb 03)
- Re: Botnets, IRC servers and firewalls? Abe Singer (Feb 03)
- Re: Botnets, IRC servers and firewalls? Jeremiah Cornelius (Feb 03)
- Re: Botnets, IRC servers and firewalls? Abe Singer (Feb 03)
- Re: Botnets, IRC servers and firewalls? Marcus J. Ranum (Feb 04)
- Re: Botnets, IRC servers and firewalls? Patrick M. Hausen (Feb 04)
- Re: Botnets, IRC servers and firewalls? Marcus J. Ranum (Feb 04)
- Re: Botnets, IRC servers and firewalls? Chris Blask (Feb 04)
- Re: Botnets, IRC servers and firewalls? Patrick M. Hausen (Feb 05)