[Full-disclosure] Sony: No firewall and no patches

[phocean]

Le mercredi 11 mai 2011 à 17:40 +0000, Dobbins, Roland a écrit :
> On May 12, 2011, at 12:31 AM, phocean wrote:
> 
> > When I look at the specs of high end machines of most makers, they are and they outmatch most of x64 servers.
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> <http://urbanairship.com/blog/2010/09/29/linux-kernel-tuning-for-c500k/>

Nice but not very precise : nature of packets, fragmentation, sessions,
bandwidth, etc.
Anyway, most appliances run a version of Linux or some BSD, so there is
potentially not much difference with an appliance.

To go back to my point: an application server (IIS, Apache) cannot
sustain as many connections as a firewall (of course in a sane and
standard environment).
So you cannot tell that a firewall will increase the risk of DoS.

>From what I have seen so far as arguments, I think the discussion is
over.