Hello, my company has tested several firewalls under high network load. The importest thing is the L2 cache size from the cpu. check this pdf, it has the information you need. :-) http://www.terreactive.com/fcgi/fcgi/home/archive/pdf/pf-speed-test.pdf bye, chris ps: sorry for my bad english... its not my language. ITM CS Ruslan O. Nesterov wrote:
Hello Mike,
Well actually it's not a big problem, I got 100 GB a day passing
through our gateway to our clients, as far i didn't find any
problems for webservers wich are not NATed, as for clients who are
in DMZ zone i sometimes get connection error, but it's 1 in 1000
connections. I run a box with the following configuration:
Single PIII-866 MHZ
RAM: 256
NIC: 2 Intel Gigabit ethernet cards (as far as i remember).
Befor it I used a Firebox firewall and it really drived me nuts.
Due to low productivity.
Sunday, January 5, 2003, 6:40:15 PM, you wrote:
MO> Hello, I don't know if this has been brought up before but I am going to be
MO> running netfilter under load on a fractional T-3 (12Mbps). The box will have
MO> 3 interfaces eth0 going to the Cisco 7200, eth1 (routable IPs) going to the
MO> webfarm for DMZ zone, and then eth2 will be NATed with a private LAN IP
MO> (192.168.1.x). I will be NATing over 200 clients and I know in the past this
MO> could be a problem with IPCHAINS because it would either run out of memory
MO> or start dropping connections. The webservers get about 7,000 hits a day and
MO> they won't be NATed but will be filtered with a mix of statefule and packet
MO> filtering rules. We have a Cisco PIX 525(which is just a Intel P600/512MB
MO> RAM) in place right now but I would like to move to Netfilter as it will be
MO> running on a dual P1ghz and a gig of memory. Is this possible? can Nefilter
MO> scale to this and beyond? and is there any tweaks I should know about?
MO> Thanks in advance.
MO> Mike
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