IPFW + BRIDGE: network capacity question

2003-10-24 Thread Mark Terribile
Christopher Schulte writes: ... I have an Intel D815EGEW board with a single PIII 1GHZ, ... Assume that it will be processing at peak all of this at once: 500 TCP connections with long lived sessions ... 500 UDP 'connections' 500 web (HTTP port 80 tcp) connections per

IPFW + BRIDGE: network capacity question

2003-10-23 Thread Christopher Schulte
Hello everyone. I have an Intel D815EGEW board with a single PIII 1GHZ, 256MEG RAM, 2 Intel Pro 100MB cards. This will be used as an IPFW+bridging firewall with FreeBSD 4.8 (RELENG_4_8, perhaps RELENG_4_9 when available). My message is about network capacity. Assume that it will be processing