Well, that's as good as I can get, I suppose... my firewall rules are available at http://tomii.dnsalias.com/firewall.txt
> -----Original Message----- > From: Thierry ITTY [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 4:41 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: linux box as router : performance ? > > A 07:23 13/11/01 -0500, vous avez écrit : > >Not sure if i't what you're asking for, but... > > Yes, that's exactly waht i'm looking for > i'd just like some feedback about "stronger" configurations, say several > 100 Mbps NICs or even Gbps, hundreds of routes or more, simple or complex > filters, aso... > thanks > > >> just interested in performance data that anyone could have collected > when > >> trying to run a linux box with one or several NICs as a router (simple > >> router with static routes, complex with OSPF or BGP, dynamic, policy, > >> filters...), some kind of table(s) showing overall performance > (packets/s, > >> bytes/s...) and configuration (cpu, memory, nics...) > > >RH 3.2 on a pentium 75: 10Mb coax w/ 3Com etherlink III combo cards... > > As a workstation - ~7Mbps transfers through a linux router (exact > >same specs as the workstation - used as a dynamic router, but no DNS - > this > >was supported by a SUN server) - this had 10Mb ether on each side... > > > >RH 6.2 on a PII-450: Same ethernet cards as above, two different > >configurations for the internal network - used to be on thin ether (50 > ohm > >coax), recently migrated to CAT-5... Transfer rates between M$ Win98 & > the > >server ~8-9Mbps. Through the server - running apache, samba, masq'ing > >connections, ipchains firewall, sshd, sendmail, & some other stuff - > maxed > >out the throughput of the cable modem (~1.5Mbps down & 256kbps up)... > Load > >meters during biggest loads (starting a game on the server & piping it's > >output through X windows - while doing a large download via ftp/http) > showed > >my disk doing some peaky stuff, but the processor kept a load average > below > >10%... When the game quit loading, I could hardly tell a difference > between > >a transfer going through or not... > - * - * - * - * - * - * - > Si nous avons chacun un objet et que nous les echangeons, > nous avons encore chacun un objet. > Si nous avons chacun une idee et que nous les echangeons, > nous avons alors chacun deux idees. > > Thierry ITTY > eMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] FRANCE > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
