On Monday 03 December 2001 14:34, RoMaNSoFt wrote: > 3) Has someone tried to benchmark a machine like this? (fw based on > linux+bridge+iptables). For instance, which processor and amount of > memory could it be necessary to reach a 100 MB/s throughtput with a > x86 machine?
i put about 20 machines behind a celeron 300 with 64 Mb, 3 3COM 100mbps cards and this is what i get in top: 11:06am up 1 day, 3:58, 2 users, load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 29 processes: 28 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice, 99.0% idle Mem: 61512K av, 59728K used, 1784K free, 0K shrd, 20628K buff Swap: 253976K av, 0K used, 253976K free 1088K cached but note: my all network works at 10 Mbps 3 nics --> 2 to bridge and another to do administrations tasks i am using a 2.4.13-ac5 - heavly modified kernel (bridge-nf + ebtables + iptables) all network seems working perfectly.. no problems, and (the best) no one seems to noticed the new "firewall" (i close some ports (kazaa, gnutella and so on) on the network hehehe ;-) _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
