Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:57:59 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Tom Uffner <tom@uffner.com> Cc: pf@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: packet forwarding/firewall performance question Message-ID: <B19045FD-7806-46A4-A183-3EB85A2594C5@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4A8484E4.6090504@uffner.com> References: <4A8484E4.6090504@uffner.com>
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Hi-- On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:25 PM, Tom Uffner wrote: > it is an 800 MHz VIA c3 with a Gigabit switch on the inside interface > and 20 Mbs symetric Fios on the outside. both interfaces are 100 Mbs. I'd done a bit of testing of a VIA EPIA C3 (either a 600 or 800) with the on-board vr0 and an Intel fxp card, and it seemed to go OK up to ~ 8MB/s aka ~65 megabits/sec with a fairly short IPFW-based firewall doing NAT and suchlike. It's probably OK for your purpose, but the EPIA motherboard I had was somewhat flaky. I'd had the vr0 interface get wedged every few days, and trying to use both ATA channels in an UDMA mode tended to result in a total system hang; using only one ATA device, UDMA-100 was fine. I never ended up putting the box into a production use as a consequence. I've had better luck with something like the Soerkris 480x ... -- -Chuck
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