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Recent content by NPNet
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6509 Firewall Service Module (FWSN)
I have deployed the FWSM blade within the last week. Our other FW was being overrun by traffic. Upon bringing the FWSM online there were 390,000 simultaneous connections. (show conn count) It was running about 9% cpu at this point. It was obvious why our other Firewall was failing. It can only...- NPNet
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- Forum: Security, hacker detection & forensics
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6509 Firewall Service Module (FWSN)
You can also purchase two modules for failover. We also have a Firewall on our network edge but with the last explosion of BlasterA-Z and Sobig our existing Firewall was Blasted and Soslow. Its several years old and is FW1 running on a single UltraSparc box. (440Mhz) That solution worked well...- NPNet
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- Forum: Security, hacker detection & forensics
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6509 with Firewall Service Module (FWSM)
We purchased one back in December and I still haven't deployed it. I was faced with similar limitations with it and had to rethink how it should sit in the network. Like yourself it would be easy to situate the FWSM between the outside and the 6509 like a traditional Firewall but we already...
