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XG - Maximum Rules limit

lferrara over 9 years ago

Hi all,

it is a strange question, but does someone know what is the maximum number of rules the XG supports?

I am talking about Security Policies.

I asked the same question on UTM forum for UTM and I would like to know the same for XG.

https://community.sophos.com/products/unified-threat-management/f/54/t/73574

I need to compete with other big Firewall installation where 10000 rules can break easily. Apart HW limitation, what about the SW?

Thanks.

Luk

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0 IanMorehouse over 9 years ago

Hi Luk,
no definite answer. I suspect it is a CPU and memory limitation eg 64gb ram and a hex or more (real) core many ghz cpu and you could go for 1000s.
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0 IanMorehouse over 9 years ago

Hi Luk,
no definite answer. I suspect it is a CPU and memory limitation eg 64gb ram and a hex or more (real) core many ghz cpu and you could go for 1000s.
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0 lferrara over 9 years ago in reply to IanMorehouse

XG and UTM are using iptables so there should be some limit. Anyway I would like to know from Sophos if there are any limit and how the rules impact on performance. We know from datasheet that IPS impact for some % if all rules are enabled, how many recommended AP we can install for each SG/XG and so on.
Hope to get this info from someone here otherwise I will contact Sophos directly and give back this sort of info here.
Thanks.

Luk
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