Hello People: My organization has two primary Internet firewalls at two separate locations. One is a Raptor V4.0 running on Solaris 2.5.1 and the other is Altavista 96 running on D-UNIX V3.2C. During the past two days, both of these firewalls became "maxed" out, for lack of a better term. Specifically, both machines had reached their maxtask limits and could no longer fork any new processes. A check of the systems revealed very large numbers of HTTP connections from individual internal client workstations. Does anyone know of some "new" browser plug-in or service pack which could be responsible for this ?? It has been suggested that IE5 runs each new browser window as a separate process and that perhaps this could somehow be responsible. The problem was first exhibited at one of our locations yesterday, and then at the second one today. Both firewalls are old and have been in production for many years. Neither can be replaced / upgraded due to a Y2K freeze. Any ideas on what the culprit could be would be appreciated. Thanks. SR
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