[CentOS] Monitor Network Traffic

2009-12-21 Thread sadas sadas
What is the best way to monitor the total incoming / outcoming network traffic of CentOS server. I think that the solution is to monitor the network interfaces and to send SNMP packets to remote server. But is it possible? regards ___ CentOS mailing l

Re: [CentOS] Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

2009-12-21 Thread sadas sadas
>Some months ago there was discussions about 10 gbit performance with >Linux. Some guys were pushing over 70 Gbit/sec through a single linux >box. 70 Gbit/sec ? Maybe with port aggravation it's possible. Can you give some more info about that guys. To achieve that hight throughput maybe

Re: [CentOS] Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

2009-12-21 Thread sadas sadas
>I've been using Linux (CentOS5) on gigabit firewalls, for thousands of >users. No problems. > >Just make sure ip_conntrack_max is big enough, so you don't run out of >connections. > >There are other things to tune to optimize the performance, but it's >certainly doable with linux+ipta

Re: [CentOS] Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

2009-12-20 Thread sadas sadas
What solution for gigabit firewall can you suggest? Witch OS and packet filter is capable to atcheave hight performance and gigabit speeds? >Les Mikesell wrote: >> Timo Schoeler wrote: What about NetBSD? I heard that NetBSD has the best network stack out there. Maybe NetBSD with p

Re: [CentOS] Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

2009-12-18 Thread sadas sadas
The syntax is not a problem. The problem is in the performance. I suppose that if I configure OpenBSD to process the in/out packets only to layer 2 the performance will be much more than linux with iptables. >> I don't know jack about IPSet, but I know enabling or disabling hosts in >>

Re: [CentOS] Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

2009-12-18 Thread sadas sadas
What about NetBSD? I heard that NetBSD has the best network stack out there. Maybe NetBSD with pf is the best choice? >>> I can't find information is there linux or BSD distribution with effective >>> firewall that uses optimized algorithm to store hundreds of IPs and to >>> forward huge

Re: [CentOS] Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

2009-12-18 Thread sadas sadas
after quick search in google: http://postfactum.pl.ua/pf/ I will test to patch latest linux kernel with pf. What do you thing? >sadas sadas wrote: > >> I can't find information is there linux or BSD distribution with effective >> firewall that uses optimized algo

Re: [CentOS] Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

2009-12-18 Thread sadas sadas
7;s you want, and failover will happen with DNS convergence. Peter On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:06 AM, nate cen...@linuxpowered.net > wrote: sadas sadas wrote: > > Hi, > I want to configure CentOS on powerful server with gigabit > adapters as transparent bridge and deploy it in front of

[CentOS] Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

2009-12-18 Thread sadas sadas
Hi, I want to configure CentOS on powerful server with gigabit adapters as transparent bridge and deploy it in front of server farm. Can you tell how to optimize the OS for hight packet processing? What configurations I need to do to achieve very hight speeds and thousands of packets?__