On 8/12/05, Matthew Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are some good command line settings to get an idea of what kind of > throughput pfsense has? currently I'm just doing: > > host1: iperf -c host2 > host2: iperf -s >
That's what I typically do. That's a good indicator of the maximum single stream throughput of the box. > and getting about 613 Mbits/sec. Where host1 is on the LAN net and host2 > is on the OPT1 net (in other words the route through the firewall). If > I run: > > host3: ipeft -c host2 > > I get about 935 Mbits/sec. Where host2 and host3 are both on OPT1 net > (and don't go through the firewall). > > Currently all LAN and OPT1 net only have a single rule which passes all > traffic. > > For the curious I've got redundant supermicro 5014C-MFB systems with > 3ghz HT cpu's, 1gig dual channel memory, 2 onboard Gig ethernet and a > PCI-X 4 port Intel Gig ethernet card. The switches are Dell 5324 24 > Gig. > that doesn't seem like too bad of performance, considering. Hopefully it'll improve with time, as FreeBSD 6 improves through all the optimization work that's in progress now. -cmb
