On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 03:43:56PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Were nearing the 8300pps mark so I was worried? But should I be?
You're fine. The 8300pps mark is not an upper limit, it's the best case for a full 100Mbit ethernet link (ignoring jumbograms). > Becuase the majority of my packets are smaller then 64B, shouldn't I > be able to pass a lot more packets then 8300pps? Yes, depending on limitations of your firewall hardware, pf ruleset, size of state table, etc. > If all my packets were 64K or smaller, shouldn't that allow me to be > able to handle closer to 200k packets/sec before hitting my bandwidth > limit? For this you will need a reasonably fast box with good gigabit ethernet cards (em or sk), and an intelligently written ruleset. It seems like you're a long way away from 200k pps, though.
