Re: packet forwarding/firewall performance question

2009-08-18 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Ian FREISLICH wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > > > > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Tom Uffner wrote: > > > > > i'm hoping a few people will give me estimates on what kind of > > > throughput i should theoretically expect before i provide any actual > > > test data. also, an

Re: packet forwarding/firewall performance question

2009-08-18 Thread Ian FREISLICH
Robert Watson wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Tom Uffner wrote: > > > i'm hoping a few people will give me estimates on what kind of > > throughput i should theoretically expect before i provide any actual > > test data. also, any suggestions on tuning would be welcome. > > > > so far in prelimin

Re: packet forwarding/firewall performance question

2009-08-14 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Tom Uffner wrote: i'm hoping a few people will give me estimates on what kind of throughput i should theoretically expect before i provide any actual test data. also, any suggestions on tuning would be welcome. so far in preliminary tests, enabling polling on the network

Re: packet forwarding/firewall performance question

2009-08-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:25 PM, Tom Uffner wrote: it is an 800 MHz VIA c3 with a Gigabit switch on the inside interface and 20 Mbs symetric Fios on the outside. both interfaces are 100 Mbs. I'd done a bit of testing of a VIA EPIA C3 (either a 600 or 800) with the on-board vr0 and an Intel

Re: packet forwarding/firewall performance question

2009-08-13 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Tom Uffner wrote: > I am curious what level of performance I should expect from the > firewall box described below in terms of packets/sec and bytes/sec. > > it is an 800 MHz VIA c3 with a Gigabit switch on the inside interface > and 20 Mbs symetric Fios on the outs

packet forwarding/firewall performance question

2009-08-13 Thread Tom Uffner
I am curious what level of performance I should expect from the firewall box described below in terms of packets/sec and bytes/sec. it is an 800 MHz VIA c3 with a Gigabit switch on the inside interface and 20 Mbs symetric Fios on the outside. both interfaces are 100 Mbs. it is running sshd, bsnmp