Re: Firewall performance querry

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On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 06:54:24AM -0400, Chris Brenton spoke thusly:

(snip lots)

>SMTP is not too bad as its pretty efficient. 

I think DJB would disagree with you ? :-)

>HTTP is the one that kills you as it spawns a unique concurrent session
>for every object on a web page you try to view. For example a user
>visiting www.netfilter.org generates 6 unique sessions to view the
>homepage. Microsoft's homepage is 10 sessions, Security Focus is 70, you
>get the idea.

If I understand you correctly, that is with HTTP/1.0 which opens up a
unique tuple per object, HTTP/1.1 uses a single tuple only.

(snip again)


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