Tim Shoppa wrote: > 36000 requests/min is an average of 600 requests/sec or > somewhere around 4 or 5kbytes/sec (each request is about 80 bytes). > > If a router cannot handle 4kbytes/sec, should it even > be considered for the pool? I mean, we try to accomodate > both large-bandwidth and small-bandwidth connections, > but 4kbytes/sec is analog dial-up modem throughput.
Smaller cisco routers come configured by default to start dropping traffic at 500 connections per minute.. It's not bandwidth it's all the tracking that the firewall(well, CBAC) has to do - if you up the limits you eventually run out of memory (although I'm not sure at what point.. I came close on mine but never quite managed it). The pool creates very abnormal loads on routers - in the weeks since I left the pool my max. connections per minute is 246. Compared to a peak of over 50,000 when I was in the pool (that was mostly from turkey too..). Tony _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
