Re: PF with gigabit voice/video streams

2011-06-08 Thread Henning Brauer
* Eric K. Miller [2011-06-03 22:31]: > > Are you running -current? There have been some massive tweaks in > networking performance in -current. Try out and report back. > > We were running 4.7 amd64 version (GENERIC.MP). Also tried the single > processor version. > > Intel Pro/1000 MT cards wer

Re: PF with gigabit voice/video streams

2011-06-07 Thread Gabriel Linder
On 06/03/11 20:48, Eric K. Miller wrote: I might start a capabilities war, but we've seen OpenBSD become CPU bound with about 150k packets per second with some pretty fast hardware. Funny, I have more than 300kpps. With pf enabled, of course. This is without PF running. I'm sure there are a

Re: PF with gigabit voice/video streams

2011-06-04 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 10:05:21PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: | On 2011-06-03, Amit Kulkarni wrote: | > If the driver is em for Intel Pro/1000 MT, that has received a serious | > boost. People are reporting close to light speed :-) | | nah, close to light speed is on the MF, not MT. Propagat

Re: PF with gigabit voice/video streams

2011-06-03 Thread Camiel Dobbelaar
On 4-6-2011 0:04, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2011-06-03, Eric K. Miller wrote: >>> Are you running -current? There have been some massive tweaks in >> networking performance in -current. Try out and report back. >> >> We were running 4.7 amd64 version (GENERIC.MP). Also tried the single >> proc

Re: PF with gigabit voice/video streams

2011-06-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2011-06-03, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > If the driver is em for Intel Pro/1000 MT, that has received a serious > boost. People are reporting close to light speed :-) nah, close to light speed is on the MF, not MT.

Re: PF with gigabit voice/video streams

2011-06-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2011-06-03, Eric K. Miller wrote: >> Are you running -current? There have been some massive tweaks in > networking performance in -current. Try out and report back. > > We were running 4.7 amd64 version (GENERIC.MP). Also tried the single > processor version. > > Intel Pro/1000 MT cards were u

Re: PF with gigabit voice/video streams

2011-06-03 Thread Eric K. Miller
> If the driver is em for Intel Pro/1000 MT, that has received a serious boost. People are reporting close to light speed :-) Wow, that's pretty fast. =) I think...? ;) > Search for the thread "Performance degradation after upgrade". The devs have made networking for certain cards blazingly fast

Re: PF with gigabit voice/video streams

2011-06-03 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> Are you running -current? There have been some massive tweaks in > networking performance in -current. Try out and report back. > > We were running 4.7 amd64 version (GENERIC.MP). Also tried the single > processor version. > > Intel Pro/1000 MT cards were used. > > I should mention that we had

Re: PF with gigabit voice/video streams

2011-06-03 Thread Christiano F. Haesbaert
On 3 June 2011 17:25, Eric K. Miller wrote: >> Are you running -current? There have been some massive tweaks in > networking performance in -current. Try out and report back. > > We were running 4.7 amd64 version (GENERIC.MP). Also tried the single > processor version. > > Intel Pro/1000 MT cards

Re: PF with gigabit voice/video streams

2011-06-03 Thread Eric K. Miller
> Are you running -current? There have been some massive tweaks in networking performance in -current. Try out and report back. We were running 4.7 amd64 version (GENERIC.MP). Also tried the single processor version. Intel Pro/1000 MT cards were used. I should mention that we had a large number

Re: PF with gigabit voice/video streams

2011-06-03 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> > I'm looking for a NAT/firewall/VPN solution with failover for a > private enterprise TV system. While my gut reaction is PF, I'm > wondering if anybody here has done this before. > > I might start a capabilities war, but we've seen OpenBSD become CPU > bound with about 150k packets per second

Re: PF with gigabit voice/video streams

2011-06-03 Thread Eric K. Miller
Hi Michael, > I'm looking for a NAT/firewall/VPN solution with failover for a private enterprise TV system. While my gut reaction is PF, I'm wondering if anybody here has done this before. I might start a capabilities war, but we've seen OpenBSD become CPU bound with about 150k packets per secon

PF with gigabit voice/video streams

2011-06-03 Thread Michael W. Lucas
Hi, I'm looking for a NAT/firewall/VPN solution with failover for a private enterprise TV system. While my gut reaction is PF, I'm wondering if anybody here has done this before. Video and voice send large numbers of small packets. I'm told that this particular application can fill a gigabit Et