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Re: Proxy and Stateful together ??
From: "R. DuFresne" <dufresne () sysinfo com>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:45:14 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Bennett Todd wrote:
2002-11-16-11:05:40 Paul D. Robertson:Might park a snort on it while I was about it, too.Hmmm, isn't that adding a level of bloatedness that's a bit extreme?Depends on the context. If the environment supports the investment to have multiple boxes implementing the firewall, then this would certainly be one of the first choices for moving off onto a separate box. If not, I don't think the bloat is that bad; for small shops, the performance impact isn't that bad, and the code seems (in my experience anyway) nice and stable. It's not as tiny as it once was, but it's still not that bloated by modern standards anyway:-).
Though you have packets traversing two rounds of 'filtering/inspection', making for a DOS perhaps in heavy attack streams, yes? Or am I missing something. My first thought here was as you mention, seperation of the two inspection produsts, if only to reduce the chances of systems overload. Thanks, Ron DuFresne -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ admin & senior security consultant: sysinfo.com http://sysinfo.com "Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." -- Johnny Hart testing, only testing, and damn good at it too! _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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