On 4/16/07, Ronnie Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bryan Vyhmeister a icrit : > > On Apr 16, 2007, at 1:58 AM, Ronnie Garcia wrote: > > > >> Clint Pachl a icrit : > >>> Ronnie Garcia wrote: > >>>> Do you expect doing more than 100mbits with this hadware (with PF > >>>> anabled) ? > >>>> I'm maxing a P4 2.4Ghz at 40mbits, with a dual em, and a ~300 lines > >>>> pf.conf > >>> What is your packets/sec when your pushing 40Mbs? Does the traffic > >>> flow in one em and out the other or is the dual em in a trunk (i.e. > >>> 2Gbs)? > >> > >> Traffic gets in one em, is filtered by pf, and gets out from the other > >> em (and the other way around). > >> Its doing 11kpps in and 6kpps out of each em, plus 7kpps on the pfsync > >> interface, which is a sis > > > > This brings up a question I have had for a while. Does pfsync generate > > enough traffic that running gigabit cards for your $ext_if and $int_if > > and a 100base-TX card for your pfsync interface cause a major > bottleneck? > > It depends on the rate of the states changes. > Here, we have ~30mbits on pfsync, for ~40mbits of traffic (!)
On our college campus with 50Mbps, we see ~8Mbps pfsync traffic. Your ratio amazes me... What type of environment is that in? -- Kian Mohageri
