bandwidth utilisation high after implementing firewall

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hi,
we have one unix server which sends multicast packets in the network, recently we have implemented firewall in between unix server and clients.After implementing firewall we found our lease line utilisation has been increased dramatically.

Is this because of firewall or else...please help.

2

hi ajay,

not that i'm aware of.
to which direction that having high utilization? traffic to firewall or from the firewall? that is TX or RX.

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from firewall to traffic....