> HP DL380G3 w/ Broadcom and Intel NICs.  I also ran an iperf 
> test, but ran out of physical boxes to generate and receive 
> the load at around 900Mbit 

That's around the same figure I managed to generate with iperf here while
testing 12 months ago. 

>(I did determine the maximum 
> xmit/receive rate of a Sun v120 running Solaris 8 though ;) ) 
>  During the iperf tests, the cpu load was closer to 25%, but 
> iperf generates larger packets, so that's no huge surprise 
> and why Avalanche is a much closer to real life test.

Quite. Rather hard to fill a state table with iperf. 

> > Putting in a DL-385 for the same client, on 6.x/PF with 4 * em to 
> > firewall off a large network backup environment.
> > I should have some pretty symon pictures soon.
> 
> Very interested in results from a high throughput 
> environment.  

I can pass on the symon graphic goodness for my handrolled 6.x/pf build on a
dl-385 if you're interested, should have some meaningful stats soon.  

Shame the 802.3ad/lacp code from NetBSD hasn't been ported over yet, I could
make use of it in this design. 

> We're a large 
> company and pfSense doesn't meet our internal audit 
> requirements just yet - that's on my todo list (multi-user, 
> change logs, etc).

Give it time :-), its all good. 


greg

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