Hi Joe,
On 08/10/2005, at 6:28 AM, Joe S wrote:
Is anyone on the list running an Ultra 5 as firewall? I would like
to move my firewall from an overpowered P4-3GHz box to a Sun Ultra
5 360MHz.
My main concern is wondering if the Ultra 5 is slow enough to
become a bottleneck from one interface to another interface.
However, I know some of you run Soekris boxen and 486's for
firewalls, so I may be just fine.
My firewall is a Sun Ultra 10, which uses the same mainboard as the
Ultra 5. Mine is the 333MHz 2Mb L2 cache model with 128Mb RAM. I have 4
fxp's in addition to the built in hme.
Between fxp's, with FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE i386 at both end points of an
iperf test, I get about 66Mbit/s with pf ON and about 76Mbit/s with pf
OFF. My ruleset is pretty bare at the moment and I just did an iperf -s
at one end and an iperf -c $IP at the other.
At one end the NIC is a GigE Realtek. So this was using:
fxp<--->fxp|fxp<--->realtek GigE
I don't know if having an fxp in place of that Realtek would have been
better. I've heard the GigE Realteks are actually not too bad as
compared with what you could expect from their older rl abominations.
I also have an Ultra 5 with I think a 360MHz 512k L2 cache CPU lying
around doing nothing at the moment. I might test it too as I'd like
to know whether the MHz or cache size matters more here.
Shane J Pearson
