Re: Requirements for IPv6 Firewalls

["Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>]

On Apr 17, 2014, at 7:35 PM, Dustin Jurman <dustin () rseng net> wrote:

> - packets per second
>       - Firewall Level
>       - Hosts level

This is getting into QoS territory . . .

> - packet size information

Concur - packet-length.

>       - Average for FW of all Network hosts

This isn't very operationally useful, IMHO.

>       - Negotiated Between Hosts  

I'm not sure what this means?

But classifiers for everything in the IP, TCP, UDP, and ICMP headers, along with packet length, makes a lot of sense.

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