I believe that if you check the Cisco website or documentation, you will see that it defines a session as a single TCP or UDP connection. If somehow you had 2M users, yet their total number of sessions never exceeded 500K, then your firewall could handle 2M users. I am not addressing performance at all here.
Realistically, though, your users are going to have any number of sessions established as they read their email, check the web, download files, and so on. It's possible that your 500K PIX firewall could only be able to handle about 5K or 50K of your users if they are the kind of users to keep hundreds or thousands of sessions going at once. HTH, Charles ""Kenan Ahmed Siddiqi"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hello groupies, > I was reading the PIX book and it apparently said that the no. of connection > supported by a PIX firewall (higher order) is 500,000. Does this mean that > upto 500,000 sessions can be established or something else? If so, what do I > do if I have a thoroughput of say 2 million users? Thanks in adv. > > Cheers, > > Kenan Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=62578&t=62575 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
