Re: Tuning gigabit bridging firewall for better performance

2005-06-10 Thread nate
Tony Sarendal said: > Now about netstat on your openbsd box ? > netstat -I -w10 results: (netstat -I em1 -w1) em1 inem1 out total in total out packets errs packets errs colls packets errs packets errs colls 45461 023878 0 0138684 0

Re: Tuning gigabit bridging firewall for better performance

2005-06-10 Thread nate
Tony Sarendal said: > Now about netstat on your openbsd box ? > netstat -I -w10 I will try that tomorrow, thanks! also any opinions whether or not the amd64 port of openbsd may perform better ? even though I'm running a cheap hack of the amd64 platform(EM64T). I wanted to go full opteron though

Re: Tuning gigabit bridging firewall for better performance

2005-06-09 Thread Tony Sarendal
On Thursday 09 June 2005 22:00, nate wrote: > Tony Sarendal said: > > When it comes to network performance most plattforms have limitations in > > packets per second before bandwidth. Please post the performance in pps > > also, > > as that is more interesting and more relevant, especially in the G

Re: Tuning gigabit bridging firewall for better performance

2005-06-09 Thread Sean Knox
Melameth, Daniel D. wrote: I don't know if this will help, but you might also want to look into piloting -current's idle loop fix. I'm in a similar situation (and similar hardware, em(4) cards in particular) as the OP. I'm running firewalls with June 3 snapshots, but I'm push 16k+18k pps at

Re: Tuning gigabit bridging firewall for better performance

2005-06-09 Thread nate
Tony Sarendal said: > When it comes to network performance most plattforms have limitations in > packets per second before bandwidth. Please post the performance in pps > also, > as that is more interesting and more relevant, especially in the GigE case. I don't see a way in iperf to get this sta

Re: Tuning gigabit bridging firewall for better performance

2005-06-09 Thread Melameth, Daniel D.
I don't know if this will help, but you might also want to look into piloting -current's idle loop fix.

Re: Tuning gigabit bridging firewall for better performance

2005-06-09 Thread Tony Sarendal
On Thursday 09 June 2005 17:25, nate wrote: > Hello -- > > I am testing out a couple of new firewalls running > openbsd 3.6 (plan to upgrade to 3.7 soon), I did > some searches to see what kind of performance I > can expect and didn't come up with much other > than one posting where a guy got more

Tuning gigabit bridging firewall for better performance

2005-06-09 Thread nate
Hello -- I am testing out a couple of new firewalls running openbsd 3.6 (plan to upgrade to 3.7 soon), I did some searches to see what kind of performance I can expect and didn't come up with much other than one posting where a guy got more than 800Mbit of throughput. Currently I am testing with