> Hi, > I have two fw platforms, mono 1.21 running on a Nokia120 and > pfsense1.0beta2 running on an AMD athlon 900. > > I can get 2.2MBs on the 120 platform, at >96% cpu usage.
That's ~20 megabits/sec, not bad for an IP-120 given its horsepower, What sort of traffic ? >On > the athlon, 32bit, 33Mhz pci, I can get 7MBs using Intel PRO > 1000MT 64 bit PCI cards. I would have expected better than that, speaking from personal experience, 5-6 years ago an IP-650 running FW-1 would easily fill a fast-e connection, the guts of an ip-650 is in the same cpu class as an athlon 900. > > My question is what speed/type cpu do I need to use to > improve on this with a PCI-X bus? (64bit, 33Mhz or maybe 66Mhz) 12 months ago I installed a fbsd/pf firewall for a client with 2 * bge & 2 * em on a proliant dl-360 with a 3.2 ghz Xeon. , The em's were iperf'd @ ~930 megabits/sec on that hardware. I'd love to get the chance to throw an Avalanche at a decent system running PF to see what it really can stand upto. > I would like to get 15-20MBs, but without spending too much. > I am looking at a 2nd hand Supermicro FPGA370 dual Pentium > mb, with PCI-X bus. That depends on the traffic you're pumping through, high rate small packet UDP will put a lot more load on a firewall than jumbo sized streaming TCP. PCI-X will remove the gig-e throughput bottleneck. Greg
