On Nov 3, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Michael J McCafferty wrote:
OK, I have a firewall that gets hammered with interrupts when under DoS attacks. The system is a Celeron 2.8GHz socket 775, Intel 865 chipset, Intel dual-port Gig server card. At no time does the system suffer any load at all from disk IO, or CPU system time or user time.
What driver are you running for that Intel card? It might be able to offload some of that work if you're using the correct driver. I know this is the case under Linux, and Intel does provide BSD drivers as well:
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/File_Filter.aspx? Filename=em-
Worth a shot. -- Joshua Penix http://www.binarytribe.com Binary Tribe Linux Integration Services & Network Consulting -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
