Firewall Wizards: Re: Botnets, IRC servers and firewalls?

From: Abe Singer <abe_at_sdsc.edu>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 15:57:33 -0800

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 06:49:26PM -0500, Paul Robertson wrote:
>
> Router and firewall performance stats are a blackhole- it's easy to skew
> the numbers.

As Marcus' cat well knows. But I'd love to have something on paper to shove
in the network "engineer's" face.

> If you start with permits for traffic to the default Web port and SSL
> port, and your internal nameservers, you're 90% of the way there, and the
> router's going to do just fine. Spread the load back to earlier routers,
> or between the router and the firewall, and you'll do even better...

<cough> What firewall? <cough> <cough>
( cf: "Life Without Firewalls" ;login: December 2003, vol 28, #6 )

:-)
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Received on Feb 04 2004