On May 18, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2006-05-18 11:03, bc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I want to run 6.1_RELEASE with Packet Filter(PF) configured as
a gateway using 2 identical 10/100 nics, on an old 450mhz
pentium with 256 meg ram and an 8 gig HD.
In general, should I expect any speed performance issues with
internet access base on the processor, ram and bus speeds of
the MB? Would the PF config cause any speed performance
deficiencies?
I had same setup as above but with IPF firewall and received
complaints about surfing speed so I put them back on a Linksys
router firewall.
We'd have to see the ruleset to be able to reply in an informed
manner. I have seen firewalls doing both filtering & NAT on a
system, with almost no overhead at all though.
This top output:
http://keramida.serverhive.com/pixelshow-top.txt
shows that a FreeBSD 5.X system with 256 MB of physical memory is
happily filtering the traffic and doing NAT for more than 100
users, while still being 97% idle.
I would think it is more than CPU speed. The speed of the PCI bus
and the speed and efficiency of the two network cards being used and
their drivers may have a bit to do with latency ("surfing speed")...
Just a guess
Chad
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