That's probably good for off the shelf but if like most of us, we've all got some variant of roll-your-own to use the already coined expression. The respective performance measurements then would be highly dependent on the box used. In terms of commenting on the variants, etc...that's fair game though.
Dave Bour Desktop Solution Center 905.381.0077 X501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For people who just want IT to work Business http://www.desktopsolutioncenter.ca Personal http://www.davebour.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Philip Mullis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 10:08 AM > To: TAUG > Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] What firewall devices do you recommend for > Small business > > Perhaps we could start a wiki page or something that has some more in > depth detail on the various routers/firewalls we all have. > > Is there any standardized open source packages out there for testing > the > various performance metrics of routers/firewalls? Something that would > measure everything from packets per second, to packet fragmentation and > max state tables? > > I know of many individual tools but nothing in a single suite for > testing. > > > Phil. > > > > > Duane wrote: > > John Li wrote: > > > >> Hi John, > >> > >> One small concern about that little Linksys box is the limited > number of > >> sessions it can handle. I used to put Linux firmware into WRT54G and > it > >> just worked fine until thounsands of concurrent sessions happened. > It > >> just became irresponsive and I had to reboot it. I tried fine tune > the > >> kernel parameters but could not get it fixed. Then I turned to > general > >> Intel platform with obviously more memory and this did the trick. > >> > > > > As pointed out before, there are different "versions" and some have > more > > cpu speed, ram, flash and usb ports then others. > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
