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Re: How many spd recrds ?

To: mahdavi@sepahan.iut.ac.ir
Subject: Re: How many spd recrds ?
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>
Date: 10 Sep 2001 09:36:14 -0400
Cc: ipsec@lists.tislabs.com
In-Reply-To: mahdavi@sepahan.iut.ac.ir's message of "Sun, 9 Sep 2001 09:00:26 GMT"
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There isn't any theoretical maximum.  It's like asking "how many firewall
rules could you have?"  The answer: unlimited.

There is a practical limit of approximately 2^32 per interface per peer.

-derek

mahdavi@sepahan.iut.ac.ir writes:

> Hi all. 
> 
> Imagine we have a high speed security gateway (Giga bit). Typicaly how many SPD 
> records are reqired ? 
> about 10 ? 
> about 50 ? 
> about 100 ? 
> about 1000 !!!???
> 
> how much?
> 
> I want to have an estimation of maximum SPD records that an administrator may 
> defines. 
> 
> sincerely yours
> mahdavi 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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