Re: sk or em

2007-04-16 Thread Chris C.
) nic. Have looked at sk and bge, but couldn't find any bge nics at my local vendors. So... which driver to go? sk? em? Modern Realtek re(4) are not really a problem, they do IPv4 TCP checksum offload, HW vlan tagging, and are a better design than the rl(4). They only handle jumbo frames up

Re: sk or em

2007-04-16 Thread Ronnie Garcia
vendors. So... which driver to go? sk? em? Do you expect doing more than 100mbits with this hadware (with PF anabled) ? I'm maxing a P4 2.4Ghz at 40mbits, with a dual em, and a ~300 lines pf.conf -- Ronnie Garcia r.garcia at ovea dot com

Re: sk or em

2007-04-16 Thread Clint Pachl
nics at my local vendors. So... which driver to go? sk? em? Do you expect doing more than 100mbits with this hadware (with PF anabled) ? I'm maxing a P4 2.4Ghz at 40mbits, with a dual em, and a ~300 lines pf.conf What is your packets/sec when your pushing 40Mbs? Does the traffic flow in one em

Re: sk or em

2007-04-16 Thread Chris C.
and bge, but couldn't find any bge nics at my local vendors. So... which driver to go? sk? em? Do you expect doing more than 100mbits with this hadware (with PF anabled) ? I'm maxing a P4 2.4Ghz at 40mbits, with a dual em, and a ~300 lines pf.conf I am doing ~190mbit throughput with my

Re: sk or em

2007-04-16 Thread Ronnie Garcia
, but couldn't find any bge nics at my local vendors. So... which driver to go? sk? em? Do you expect doing more than 100mbits with this hadware (with PF anabled) ? I'm maxing a P4 2.4Ghz at 40mbits, with a dual em, and a ~300 lines pf.conf What is your packets/sec when your pushing 40Mbs? Does

Re: sk or em

2007-04-16 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Apr 16, 2007, at 1:58 AM, Ronnie Garcia wrote: Clint Pachl a icrit : Ronnie Garcia wrote: Do you expect doing more than 100mbits with this hadware (with PF anabled) ? I'm maxing a P4 2.4Ghz at 40mbits, with a dual em, and a ~300 lines pf.conf What is your packets/sec when your pushing

Re: sk or em

2007-04-16 Thread Ronnie Garcia
Bryan Vyhmeister a icrit : On Apr 16, 2007, at 1:58 AM, Ronnie Garcia wrote: Clint Pachl a icrit : Ronnie Garcia wrote: Do you expect doing more than 100mbits with this hadware (with PF anabled) ? I'm maxing a P4 2.4Ghz at 40mbits, with a dual em, and a ~300 lines pf.conf What is your

Re: sk or em

2007-04-16 Thread Henning Brauer
* Bryan Vyhmeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-16 20:45]: On Apr 16, 2007, at 8:24 AM, Ronnie Garcia wrote: Bryan Vyhmeister a icrit : This brings up a question I have had for a while. Does pfsync generate enough traffic that running gigabit cards for your $ext_if and $int_if and a

Re: sk or em

2007-04-16 Thread Kian Mohageri
On 4/16/07, Ronnie Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Vyhmeister a icrit : On Apr 16, 2007, at 1:58 AM, Ronnie Garcia wrote: Clint Pachl a icrit : Ronnie Garcia wrote: Do you expect doing more than 100mbits with this hadware (with PF anabled) ? I'm maxing a P4 2.4Ghz at 40mbits,

Re: sk or em

2007-04-16 Thread Jason Dixon
On Apr 16, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: On Apr 16, 2007, at 8:24 AM, Ronnie Garcia wrote: Bryan Vyhmeister a icrit : This brings up a question I have had for a while. Does pfsync generate enough traffic that running gigabit cards for your $ext_if and $int_if and a 100base-TX

Re: sk or em

2007-04-16 Thread Ronnie Garcia
Kian Mohageri a icrit : On 4/16/07, Ronnie Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Vyhmeister a icrit : On Apr 16, 2007, at 1:58 AM, Ronnie Garcia wrote: Clint Pachl a icrit : Ronnie Garcia wrote: Do you expect doing more than 100mbits with this hadware (with PF anabled) ? I'm maxing a P4

Re: sk or em

2007-04-16 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Apr 16, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Jason Dixon wrote: Of course. You could do a 3-homed firewall using a single physical interface with VLANs. Not that you *should*, but you *could*. Didn't you post about a router on a stick not too long ago. That's immediately what I thought of when I

Re: sk or em

2007-04-16 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Apr 16, 2007, at 7:14 PM, Jason Dixon wrote: On Apr 16, 2007, at 9:49 PM, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: Didn't you post about a router on a stick not too long ago. That's immediately what I thought of when I posted about this. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=117482540111222w=2 I did a search

Re: sk or em

2007-04-16 Thread Jason Dixon
On Apr 16, 2007, at 9:49 PM, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: On Apr 16, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Jason Dixon wrote: Of course. You could do a 3-homed firewall using a single physical interface with VLANs. Not that you *should*, but you *could*. Didn't you post about a router on a stick not too long

Re: sk or em

2007-04-16 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Apr 16, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Ronnie Garcia wrote: Kian Mohageri a icrit : On 4/16/07, Ronnie Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It depends on the rate of the states changes. Here, we have ~30mbits on pfsync, for ~40mbits of traffic (!) On our college campus with 50Mbps, we see ~8Mbps pfsync

sk or em

2007-04-15 Thread Chris C.
driver to go? sk? em? I really think this has been discussed before so if someone could just give me some keywords to search for in the archives I'd be lucky. Thanks Chris

Re: sk or em

2007-04-15 Thread Stuart Henderson
nics at my local vendors. So... which driver to go? sk? em? Modern Realtek re(4) are not really a problem, they do IPv4 TCP checksum offload, HW vlan tagging, and are a better design than the rl(4). They only handle jumbo frames up to 7.5k, but if jumbo support was a big issue you'd probably have