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Re: Requirements for IPv6 Firewalls

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Thu Apr 17 11:55:51 2014

From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 15:54:29 +0000
In-Reply-To: <534FF28B.9090807@networktest.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Apr 17, 2014, at 10:26 PM, David Newman <dnewman@networktest.com> wrote:

> For firewalls handling TCP traffic, upper-layer traffic metrics such as H=
TTP object size, concurrent connection capacity, and connection setup rate =
are a lot more meaningful.

I'm referring here to the ability to use packet-length as a classifier in a=
 policy, not about bps/pps/tps/cps, et. al., apologies for being unclear.

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