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Re: Re[2]: ISAKMP performance



In message <199707211439.KAA25601@argon.ncsc.mil>, David P. Kemp writes:
> It seems to me that a NAS which
> required 1000 SA establishments per second, with, say, an average
> connection lifetime of 5 minutes (300 seconds), would be capable of
> supporting 300,000 simultaneous connections!

Not quite. The 1000/second refers to a reset or power outage, where you get
slammed with (e.g.) 1000 simultaneous incoming calls. This is peak load; the
average call-cycle load would be much lower (~200/minute, or merely
3.3/second :-).

-- 
Harald Koch <chk@utcc.utoronto.ca>


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