Measuring Connections for Firewall Specification

[Guest David Morgan]

Hello

 

We are looking at getting a new firewall to protect our web servers. (2 x

Windows 2003 R2 running IIS.)

 

One of the questions we have been asked is, under normal load, what is the

number of connection attempts per second and how many open connections would

the firewall need to support?

 

Can someone tell me the best way to collect this information?

 

I know that there is a connection attempts counter within performance

monitor, but how about open connections?

 

Thanks

 

David

[Guest Kristofer Gafvert]

Re: Measuring Connections for Firewall Specification

 

In performance monitor you have "Web Service\Current Connections" which

seems to be what you are looking for.

 

 

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Regards,

Kristofer Gafvert

http://www.gafvert.info/iis/ - IIS Related Info

 

 

David Morgan wrote:

>Hello

>

>We are looking at getting a new firewall to protect our web servers. (2 x

>Windows 2003 R2 running IIS.)

>

>One of the questions we have been asked is, under normal load, what is the

>number of connection attempts per second and how many open connections

>would the firewall need to support?

>

>Can someone tell me the best way to collect this information?

>

>I know that there is a connection attempts counter within performance

>monitor, but how about open connections?

>

>Thanks

>

>David