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. > >
