SonicWall, alert message

What particular model do you use, how many computers are behind it?

Well, that is pretty normal when the device has reached its limits.

The number of connections is limited to some 32000.

Too much connections are caused by too much machines behind it causing too much traffic etc. Get a bigger device, the one you own is obviuosly too small Besides that a faster uplink might also help because connections get closed quicker since the transfer time is shorter on a faster line which will make connections disappear from the connection state table faster.

In general I'd say that you need more ressources ...

Wolfgang

I've got the SonicWall 2040 firewall.

At any given time there are usually between 28 and 32 computers behind the firewall.

Thanks for the input. I figured it was a network traffic issue, just wanted to verify the connection limit. 32768 seems to be when we start dropping packets and getting the errors.

No more internet music and chatting for our users! ;-)

Thanks, again, for the input. As I said, just wanted to get verification.

Thanks

Wolfgang Kueter wrote:

That is not much for a device that can handle 32000 connections.

While it is in genneral totally OK to ban such applications in a company network, these should not make that many connections. A device with a limit of 32000 connections seems not too small for a network of about 30 computers. The intersting questions is why the connetions stay open in the firewall. Normally a connection should be deleted from the connection state table of the firewall when the transfer is completed. Wolfgang