Surprise! Big Traffic
Posted on September 16, 2008
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How to tell it may be a long night:
From under 1 MBits/sec to 10 all at once. *bam*
The WatchGuard Edge X55e firewall is not doing well with this sort of volume. It dumps the VPN connections not long after each reboot and then seems to stop responding after 20 or 30 minutes. A reboot gets it back on track for a bit.
This is why content delivery networks can be helpful in ad campaigns (hopefully we can get that setup tomorrow AM). Alas, I suspect a lot of folks aren’t getting the ad content we wanted to serve them. That’s a bummer.
Tags: CDN, network, WatchGuard
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