Re: [pfSense] insert a pfsense box to handle high network load (botnet attack)

2013-09-11 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Hello everybody. This is just to thank Seth and Vick who have answered my questions and gave advice. Unfortunately I could not follow my plan to add a pfSense box to my home network because the vdsl router didn't work as a bridge.. too bad! Anyways, the botnet attack is over and my router

Re: [pfSense] insert a pfsense box to handle high network load (botnet attack)

2013-09-06 Thread Seth Mos
On 6-9-2013 2:56, Roberto Nunnari wrote: Hi all. I have a problem with my home internet connection. Aha! My vdsl router gets on the wan interface about 40-50 requests per second on port 80 and when I configure it so that it forwards that traffic to my web server, the router can't bear the

[pfSense] insert a pfsense box to handle high network load (botnet attack)

2013-09-05 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Hi all. I have a problem with my home internet connection. My vdsl router gets on the wan interface about 40-50 requests per second on port 80 and when I configure it so that it forwards that traffic to my web server, the router can't bear the load and freezes after a few seconds. All that

Re: [pfSense] insert a pfsense box to handle high network load (botnet attack)

2013-09-05 Thread Vick Khera
It entirely depends on the hardware you use for pfSense as to how much load it can handle. I for one, push a sustained 60-70Mbps, with bursts of 120Mbps or more on a fairly hefty Xeon 64-bit server with 16GB of RAM. I have mostly simple rules, several IPSec and OpenVPN endpoints, and about 8