Re: [FW1] running webservers behind firewall

[Joerg Oertel <Joerg.Oertel@pallas.com>]

On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 11:18:18 -0400, Charles L. Cheek wrote:

> We are considering running about a dozen heavily hit webservers behind a FW1
> on HPUX.  Will the firewall become a bottleneck doing stateful inspection?
> Are there any other 'gotchas' putting public webservers behind a FW1?

That's exactly what a DMZ is for. FW-1 should have no problems at with that 
traffic. Most propably your bottleneck will be your external connection.

Joerg


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