We have such a configuration in progress, it works great without any of the issues you're proposing. Jeff On Jan 4, 2010 9:09 PM, "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net> wrote: On Jan 5, 2010, at 4:25 AM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: > Use a robust firewall such as a Netscreen in fro... Absolutely not - the firewall will fall over due to state-table exhaustion before the mitigation system will. Firewalls (which have no place in front of servers in the first place), load-balancers, and any other stateful devices should be southbound of the mitigation system. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. -- H.L. Mencken