Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:55:29 +0200 From: Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> To: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> Cc: FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Chris Nehren <cnehren+freebsd-stable@pobox.com>, Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> Subject: Re: Suggestions for low-power gigE firewall? Message-ID: <CAPS9%2BSspb6%2BA4v5=agzff=vHHNDtgQJ6GbRLmw6vOG1NUf6HCQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFHbX1K0D%2B0KCeZdU1wm5DiFv4E_FsuR6QwFAsLUrdg4RdiUcg@mail.gmail.com> References: <20140613121732.GA61092@behemoth> <20140615090845.GB42502@server.rulingia.com> <CAFHbX1K0D%2B0KCeZdU1wm5DiFv4E_FsuR6QwFAsLUrdg4RdiUcg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> wrote: > > On 2014-Jun-13 08:17:33 -0400, Chris Nehren < > cnehren+freebsd-stable@pobox.com> wrote: > >>Speaking of Soekris elsethread, I'm presently interested in > >>picking up a small device to use as a router + firewall for my > >>home network. > > > > One thing to keep in mind is that 'gigE firewall' is fairly meaningless > by > > itself. Most of the load is per-packet and GigE could be anywhere > between > > (roughly) 80kpps and 1.5mpps. > > > > That said, since you mention 'home network', I presume you don't need > complex > > packet manipulation at wire-speed. Note that whilst the re(4) driver > doesn't > > have the same comments as the rl(4) driver, you will still need > significantly > > more CPU power to get the same thruput from a RTL8111 as (eg) an em. > > This is quite interesting to me; I'm very fortunate in that my ISP > provides synchronous gigabit, which comes in to my block of flats as > fibre and then is presented to me as ethernet. > > The ISP provided a router; they also noted that the router was not > capable of utilizing the whole connection, and the most that I could > achieve out of it would be ~ 800-900Mbit. Plus, although it's a pretty > good router, I want to run my own dhcpd settings, configure tunnels > and VPNs etc. > > Ideally, I'd replace it with my home server, but there is not enough > space in the "comms room" (aka the washing machine closet) to put that > there, and not enough wiring to route the WAN connection to where the > server is now and then back to the patch panel in the comms room to > distribute throughout the flat. > Without knowing the exact cabling arrangement, have you considered buying a small switch that understands vlan? Then you could do some trickery with that to have your server elsewhere (with just one ethernet cable)? > > The next best would be to replace it with a small Soekris style box > running BSD that can fit in the comms room - but how to know what will > be sufficient, or even where the bottlenecks would be - is it pps that > is the issue, or is NAT at high throughput going to be a problem? And > how to measure my current usage? > We haven't done any testing of the different NAT solutions available so I can't give any specific numbers there. But I don't think it will help throughput, especially old school natd in userspace. A colleague of mine also has 1Gbit/s home, and he hade to tweak the settings and buy a decent intel card to get 900+Mbit/s on his old dell entry level desktop. > > If I'm "filling" my GigE, then it is probably because I am downloading > something, which means it's unlikely to be hundreds of thousands of > small packets, right? > Sure, they shouldn't be. Best regards Andreas > Talk about first world problems! > > Cheers > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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