Hi all,
we're searching for a reliable hardware basis to use as a pfSense
firewall with a maximum concurrent throughput of 6 Gigabits / second.
We were thinking of something like this hardware configuration:
- 2x Intel Xeon QuadCore Processors
- 4 or 8 GB of RAM
- QuadPort Intel Pro 1000
Tim Korves schrieb:
Hi all,
we're searching for a reliable hardware basis to use as a pfSense
firewall with a maximum concurrent throughput of 6 Gigabits / second.
We were thinking of something like this hardware configuration:
- 2x Intel Xeon QuadCore Processors
- 4 or 8 GB of RAM
-
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 06:52, Tim Korves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
we're searching for a reliable hardware basis to use as a pfSense firewall
with a maximum concurrent throughput of 6 Gigabits / second.
Four questions to start:
- If 6Gbps is the peak, what do you expect the sustained throughput
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 08:46:54AM -0700, RB wrote:
- 2x Intel Xeon QuadCore Processors
Probably overkill if you aren't proxying, using the portal, or doing
lots of load-balancing/multiwan.
I wonder whether my current SunFire X2100 M2 dual-core 1.8 GHz Opteron
could fill all its onboard NICs
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Tim Korves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
we're searching for a reliable hardware basis to use as a pfSense firewall
with a maximum concurrent throughput of 6 Gigabits / second.
We were thinking of something like this hardware configuration:
- 2x Intel Xeon
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Chris Buechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Commodity PC hardware of any type may not be able to push that. It's
not about Gbps, it's about pps and the kind of traffic you're pushing.
You're going to max out at probably 1 Mpps (million packets per
second). 1 Mpps
the last time I checked out the guts of a Cisco PIX, I found that it was
nothing more than commodity PC hardware with an Intel processor. I
don't know if that's changed, or not. BSD is very good a pushing
packets around and the middle of 11Gbps is 5.5Gbps and that's not far
off the number
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Curtis Maurand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the last time I checked out the guts of a Cisco PIX, I found that it was
nothing more than commodity PC hardware with an Intel processor.
And you aren't going to see a PIX pushing remotely close to 1Mpps.
