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Appendix E. Performance Tuning

Appendix E. Performance Tuning

This appendix discusses how to tune FireWall-1 and the operating system of the three major platforms for FireWall-1: Solaris, Windows NT, and IPSO.



    		Frequently Asked Questions
    		Preface
    		Chapter 1. Introduction to Firewalls
    		Chapter 2. Planning Your FireWall-1 Installation
    		Chapter 3. Installing FireWall-1
    		Chapter 4. Building Your Rulebase
    		Chapter 5. Logging and Alerting
    		Chapter 6. Common Issues
    		Chapter 7. Remote Management
    		Chapter 8. User Authentication
    		Chapter 9. Content Security
    		Chapter 10. Network Address Translation
    		Chapter 11. Site-to-Site VPN
    		Chapter 12. SecuRemote and SecureClient
    		Chapter 13. High Availability
    		Chapter 14. INSPECT
    		Appendix A. Securing Your Bastion Host
    		Appendix B. Sample Acceptable Usage Policy
    		Appendix C. 'firewall-1.conf' File for Use with OpenLDAP v1
    		Appendix D. 'firewall-1.schema' File for Use with OpenLDAP v2
    		Appendix E. Performance Tuning
    		Number of Entries Permitted in Tables
    		Memory Used for State Tables
    		Tweaks for Specific Operating Systems
    		Appendix F. Sample 'defaultfilter.pf' File
    		Appendix G. Other Resources
    		Appendix H. Further Reading