Hi,

thank you all for the various interesting details about real life cases.

Regards,
--
Alessio Pace.


On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Michael Weiss <w...@borasi.de> wrote:

> On Monday 24 August 2009 13:28:59 Alessio Pace wrote:
> > I was wondering if NAT boxes (of course with possible differences from
> > vendor to vendor) employ a sort of "upper bound" for the number of active
> > filtering rules
>
> Most consumer devices will be limited by RAM. I remember a DSL router not
> being able to open new connections about 30 seconds after a box with
> W32.Blaster connected. It was however able to handle 4 people using skype
> and
> quite a lot of file sharing clients with unreasonable settings
> simultaneaously.
>
> Another situation where i noticed limits was in a wireless mesh network
> where
> many connections from many nodes are funneled through one internet gateway.
> There used to be a policy of about 100 active connections per user or maybe
> new connections within a period of 1 to 5 minutes ... my memory is fuzzy
> here
> and it's not valid anymore because users hit that limit frequently but
> temporarily. Think of what happens when you start a browser that is trying
> to
> load 40 tabs at once.
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