Re: PIX firewall simultaneous connections [7:62575]

2003-02-06 Thread Mark Smith
I have approximately 2 million hits a day on web pages behind a pair of PIX 515's in failover and send out a little more than a million subscription (not spam) email's every night and the only issue I have is that the available 1550 (Ethernet) blocks drops to zero at times during the 3 or 4 hours i

Re: PIX firewall simultaneous connections [7:62575]

2003-02-06 Thread Sam Sneed
These are TCP and UDP connections. Keep in mind that PIX must keep a state table for these connections so thats probably where it gets the limit from. I really can't see how you could have 2 million users internally going through 1 firewall so I assume you mean 2 million people hitting a webserver

Re: PIX firewall simultaneous connections [7:62575]

2003-02-06 Thread Charles Riley
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