[EAS] Polling interval for CAP station

[Alex Hartman]

This was seriously planned very wrong. Very very wrong, and here's why.

My station is at a state university with a very large IT department
tied to the state infrastructure. If one mac address is trying to hit
the same address every 3 seconds, the state firewall is going to see
this box as trying to do something malicious and shut down my port at
the switch, automatically. It LOOKS suspicious based on IT standards.
Getting the STATE to sign off on this as "normal behavior" without a 6
month long audit of what exactly the box is and it's function, will
render it useless.

I guess i can only complain about it, seeing as how they're almost
done implementing the thing, i have a CAP enabled box, but i don't
think i'll be enabling it until i'm forced to.

--
Alex Hartman

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Efraim Petel
<efraimp at alertingsolutions.com> wrote:
> Polling interval should be between 3-30 seconds, for operational reasons of course.
> Optimizing the index filter in the cap server makes smaller load on the server and fast processing at the client. It is up to the system architect to build the system to comply.
> See http://edis.oes.ca.gov
> Efraim Petel
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