----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brandon Martin" <lists.na...@monmotha.net>
> The nice thing is that such emergency alerts don't require > confidentiality and can relatively easily bear in-band, > application-level authentication (in fact, that seems preferable to only > using session-level authentication). That means you could easily carry > them over plain HTTP or similar which removes the TLS overhead you mention. Sure. Just signing the alert packet so it can be authenticated is plenty. > Several GB of RAM is nothing for a modern server, of course. It sounds > like you'd probably run into other scaling issues before you hit memory > limitations needed to juggle legitimate TCP connection state. Well, yeah, but I don't know that it's *just* RAM; I suspect it might be data structure as well... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
