Buozis, Martynas wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am running IPFilter installation on Solaris 8 (Generic_117350-41).
> PFIL version is  2.1.11,REV=10:54:27 11/16/06.
>
> We noticed, that PFIL is causing big impact to network performance even
> when IPFilter is stopped (just PFIL is loaded) and no rules are present.
> 2GB file copy from NFS server took 35 minutes with PFIL loaded, while
> without PFIL only 3 minutes were required to copy same file.
>
> Can somebody advice were problem is with PFIL ?
>   

It shouldn't cause performance to drop this much...sounds like something
is going wrong.

The pfil module will stop any performance improvements due to hardware
features
such as checksum offload being activated.

Darren

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