Not quite. It includes a concept known as "connection limits". By default, all clients are limited to 160 connections per second, after which ISA simply ignores them (and logs them, of course). The bane of ISA 2000 existence were the Slammer, Blaster and Sasser self-propagating forms that would suck the life out of a network (and proxy / firewall) with their high connect-rate traffic. Jim Harrison MCP(NT4, W2K), A+, Network+, PCG http://isaserver.org/Jim_Harrison/ http://isatools.org Read the help / books / articles! ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Robertson" <robertson.william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 13:58 Subject: [isalist] Re: Motivation for upgrading to ISA2004? http://www.ISAserver.org What is the reason behind such a statement Jim? What is cleverer in ISA2004 that it can avoid infections? Heuristics, Pattern Matching... -----Original Message----- From: Jim Harrison [mailto:jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 01 September 2004 10:52 PM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] Re: Motivation for upgrading to ISA2004? http://www.ISAserver.org Remember all the times an ISA 2000 box fell victim to other machines that were infected? ISA 2004 won't have that problem. Jim Harrison MCP(NT4, W2K), A+, Network+, PCG http://isaserver.org/Jim_Harrison/ http://isatools.org Read the help / books / articles! ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Robertson" <robertson.william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 13:48 Subject: [isalist] Motivation for upgrading to ISA2004? http://www.ISAserver.org Hi there Because ISA2004 is not a "free" upgrade from ISA2000, I need to motivate to the exec why it is necessary to purchase the latest version. I was hoping you guys could provide some ideas that a manager could relate to. 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