Re: Relative Firewall Performance: 3.7 and 4.0

2007-02-24 Thread William Bloom
How 'bout the Commell EMB-564VG then, as an alternative to Soekris? I've seen a few postings that seem to show high regard. Billl On Feb 24, 2007, at 3:49, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/02/23 18:58, William Bloom wrote: Hmm, I'm rereading the product description for the Soekris

Relative Firewall Performance: 3.7 and 4.0

2007-02-23 Thread William Bloom
I recently upgraded a Soekris 4801 firewall from OpenBSD 3.7 to 4.0. The configuration for firewalling (pf.conf) is unchanged. On 3.7, at peak throughput I normally saw maybe 65% - 76% interrupt mode and little or no congestion. However, on 4.0 with similar traffic levels I see 85% - 95%

Re: Relative Firewall Performance: 3.7 and 4.0

2007-02-23 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/02/23 16:27, William Bloom wrote: I recently upgraded a Soekris 4801 firewall from OpenBSD 3.7 to 4.0. The configuration for firewalling (pf.conf) is unchanged. On 3.7, at peak throughput I normally saw maybe 65% - 76% interrupt mode and little or no congestion. However, on 4.0 with