On Monday 01 September 2003 19:20, Mathew Binkley wrote:
> So our bridging firewall achieves ~84% of full line speed. However,
> during testing the firewall had a load level of 4.3. There doesn't
> appear to be any packet loss, but I'm not sure if it is affecting
> latency or not. Does anyone kn
> On Monday 01 September 2003 19:20, Mathew Binkley wrote:
> > So our bridging firewall achieves ~84% of full line speed. However,
> > during testing the firewall had a load level of 4.3. There doesn't
> > appear to be any packet loss, but I'm not sure if it is affecting
> > latency or not. Does
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:20:04PM -0500, Mathew Binkley wrote:
> The firewall box is a SuperMicro 1U box with ServerWorks GC-LE chipset,
> dual 1.8 GHz Xeons, 1 GB RAM, 40 gig hard drive, and two gigabit NIC's
> (one Intel, the other NatSemi 83820). OpenBSD doesn't support SMP, so
> only one o
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On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:20:04PM -0500, Mathew Binkley wrote:
> The firewall box is a SuperMicro 1U box with ServerWorks GC-LE
> chipset,
>
Dom De Vitto wrote:
Damn straight.
That's 94% of wire speed!
But largely irrelevant, as it is packets per second and not bytes per
second that matter.
As it is probably interrupts that are loading the box and not packet
processing, you could perster tedu@ for his devpoll patch, but to quote
his
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Damien Miller wrote:
I believe the fastest appliance out there currently is the Cisco PIX535,
coming in at a max of 1.7gb/s, but the other firewall appliances around
are way behind that and are well sub-1gb/s.
Nokia IP1260 w/FW-1 quotes 4.2Gbps
NetScreen 5400 quotes 12Gbps
You can find even gre
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:12:59AM -0400, Amir Seyavash Mesry wrote:
> Henning/Daniel, is there any plans to implement polling in 3.4?
in 3.4 for sure not.
even later - nobody has yet shown that it pays out.
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Maybe not at 1Gb, but at 10Gb polling comes in handy,
at least that's what we've seen with tests run using
Intel 10Gb NIC under Linux and FreeBSD.
once upon a time a famous beer drinker said:
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:12:59AM -0400, Amir Seyavash Mesry wrote:
> Henning/Daniel, is there any pla
Henning Brauer wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:12:59AM -0400, Amir Seyavash Mesry wrote:
>
>> Henning/Daniel, is there any plans to implement polling in 3.4?
>
>
> in 3.4 for sure not.
> even later - nobody has yet shown that it pays out.
If anyone's interested I'm willing to test a patch (as
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