* raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-13 02:54]: > Ted Unangst ha scritto: >> On 2/12/08, Darren Spiteri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I don't know why or how this poorly documented sysctl works, but the >>> result speaks for itself. Note the dramatic throughput increase of the >>> parent. >> running netperf on a firewall is a poor test of forwarding performance. > So, Ted, what test he need to do, to have some results good ? I ask > because i was thinkin to use netperf too to test my network performance, > so if you can help both of us, i really appreciate. > Thanks.
testing a seemingly simple thing such as forwarding rates is surprisingly hard. you might want to read that up on undeadly, I think I wrote some stuff in the comments to the "double pf performance" article. and certainly on misc too. I am not willing to repeat for the <somehighnumber>th time. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
