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Re: Firewall Sizing?


From: "Marcin Antkiewicz" <firewallwizards () kajtek org>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:02:56 -0500

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Paul Hutchings <PAUL () spamcop net> wrote:

How do you go about sizing a firewall?


Depends on what work the firewall will do - VPN and protocol inspection will
take CPU, packet filtering not so much.


Here is ASA 5505, some of the traffic comes in IPSec tunnels that it
terminates:

asa# sh conn count
2225 in use, 2376 most used

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Marcin Antkiewicz
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