Re: [pfSense] pfsense performance

2014-05-22 Thread Joseph H
Hey Jim, Thank you for the response it is all good stuff. I would be interested in looking at the pfCenter you mentioned, just to check it out and having an API for pfSense would be awesome. Joe On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Jim Thompson j...@smallworks.com wrote: On May 21, 2014, at

[pfSense] pfsense performance

2014-05-21 Thread Joseph H
Hi Everyone, I was having a debate with a new network engineer we have and we were discussing how pfSense performs and how it would handle 10G network connections, setup as a transparent firewall, using snort and a few other packages to help monitor and graph traffic. I was saying that as long

Re: [pfSense] pfsense performance

2014-05-21 Thread Adam Thompson
On 14-05-21 08:27 PM, Joseph H wrote: Hi Everyone, I was having a debate with a new network engineer we have and we were discussing how pfSense performs and how it would handle 10G network connections, setup as a transparent firewall, using snort and a few other packages to help monitor and

Re: [pfSense] pfsense performance

2014-05-21 Thread Joseph H
Hi Adam, Thanks for the response, I wonder if I setup a pfsense and use a packet generator maybe I can find out an answer. Once I get a couple of servers freed up which has dual 10G nics, I might give this a try. I have a couple of HP servers with I think 48 cores and 128G of ram being decommed