Network Working Group D. Newman
Request for Comments: 2647 Data Communications
Category: Informational August 1999
Benchmarking Terminology for Firewall Performance
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction...................................................2
2. Existing definitions...........................................2
3. Term definitions...............................................3
3.1 Allowed traffic...............................................3
3.2 Application proxy.............................................3
3.3 Authentication................................................4
3.4 Bit forwarding rate...........................................5
3.5 Circuit proxy.................................................6
3.6 Concurrent connections........................................6
3.7 Connection....................................................7
3.8 Connection establishment......................................9
3.9 Connection establishment time.................................9
3.10 Connection maintenance......................................10
3.11 Conection overhead..........................................11
3.12 Connection teardown.........................................11
3.13 Connection teardown time....................................12
3.14 Data source.................................................12
3.15 Demilitarized zone..........................................13
3.16 Firewall....................................................13
3.17 Goodput.....................................................14
3.18 Homed.......................................................15
3.19 Illegal traffic.............................................15
3.20 Logging.....................................................16
3.21 Network address translation.................................16
3.22 Packet filtering............................................17
3.23 Policy......................................................17
3.24 Protected network...........................................18
3.25 Proxy.......................................................19
3.26 Rejected traffic............................................19
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