On Jan 8 2007 13:06, Rajkumar S wrote: > > I have a netfilter firewall which is running at around 20k packets per > second. I want to know how much load the current packet rate is > causing to the server? The usual w does not give any thing. More top: %hi and %si might give an indication that something is happening. > importantly how do I know if this packet rate is hitting or about to > hit any limits? How much more pps will my system take? If any packets you feed in don't come out again (two network cards - a forwarding setup) -`J' --