I agree with Chris, increase your state table size, that'll probably fix your issue. The CPU _should_ be enough for 100Mbit, but 'top' should tell you cpu usage at peak loads easily enough, or use the RRD graphs after the fact to look at CPU load. I'd recommend replacing those 3com NICs with Intel Pro 100's or even Pro 1000's (less CPU overhead due to better buffering on the card), but again I suspect your issue isn't hardware and tossing more/different at it won't solve your current problem.
--Bill On 5/25/07, Alin Badea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello as stated in the subj I have a network of 60 ip's ( a city block network ) that are orientated 95 on p2p traffic DC++ & torrents, the reason I wanted to try pfsense is for the traffic shaper that seems to do a good job in ensuring some bandwith for e-mail and http traffic and evenly distributing the remaning bandwith between the users, the router is a fujitsu simens PC cpu PIIi@ 733 with 512mb RAM and two 3COM nics. The thing that happns is that when the traffic is at his highest ( everybody is downloading ) pfsese hangs for a few minutes and starts over for a few more until it crashhes all toghether. For the moment I went back to my old debian Linux for this job on the same machine but i'm not satisfied it is crawling although it is stable. My question is do I need faster hardware for the job, are there any minimum hardware requirments based on traffic, if not where should I look ? the bandwith is of 100mb on the metropolitan traffic and of 2 mb external.
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