Bill has answered this several times on this list; here's a link to his most recent answer, which is consistent with those prior:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.firewalls.pfsense.support/11534 Nutshell: Each state takes 1-3k of RAM; ceteris peribus, a firewall with 1GB of RAM should be able to safely handle ~768k states. There are numerous anecdotal references to people running 100k safely in 256M. The 10k default is extremely conservative because of the wide range of hardware pfSense runs on, namely the Soekris 4501 (64MB of RAM max). I have a system rather identical to yours and I had zero compunction with raising the number of states to 1M. You may also want to consider setting "Advanced->Firewall optimization settings" to 'aggressive'. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
