Joshua Perry wrote: >We are currently using Shorewall 3.2.4 on a Gentoo distro with a >dual-core Pentium 2.8Ghz and 1GB Ram. It is setup running NAT as >our default network gateway to a 10Mb direct internet connection. > >I am wondering if there is some way to measure the latency produced >by the firewall and if there are some standard kernel settings that >can help latency. I am even willing to build a kernel with some >low-latency patches if it may help.
Tools like traceroute, mtr, or smokeping will (in different ways) show you the latency to different hops in a path. Even a couple of pings, one to the firewall, one to the next hop, would give you some idea. This assumes, of course, that the latency isn't somewhere upstream and the people responsible haven't done QoS to make pings look fast ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
