Apologies for the late reply, just back from a weeks vacation in Italy. 

I've Iperf'd pf on FreeBSD with a 3.4 ghz Xeon with em at > 850
megabits/sec. 

scrub chopped that down by about 150 megabits/sec.    

Greg




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Lenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: 12 August 2005 19:40
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [pfSense-discussion] iperf
> 
> 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
> 
> 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.
> 
> 

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