does anyone have the output of vmstat , netstat and iostat ,etc to see
how the hardware was performing at that time? would be really
interesting to see and compare.

i think bsd wont make much more speed difference in terms of packet
size in order to nat, more sounds to me pps would be the variable...?

On 10/10/07, Chris Buechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bill Borton wrote:
> > I picked up a couple of net4501s for use as time servers and am pretty darn
> > impressed with them.  I'd like to get a couple more and use them as simple
> > router/firewalls running NanoBSD.  A quick throughput test with iperf only
> > gives me ~14 Mbits/s without fastforwarding and ~39 Mbits/s with. (~94
> > Mbits/s through just the switch.)
> >
> > Do these numbers look correct for a net4501?  Can anyone give me some idea 
> > as
> > to what to expect with other models?  I'm thinking about the 4801 and 5501.
> >
>
> Looks right. With NAT and firewalling, a 4501 will get you around 10-15
> Mb depending on OS, packet filter and NAT used, and configuration.
>
> 4801 will get you more like 30 Mb. I don't have a 5501 to test, but
> supposedly they can do at or near 100 Mb wire speed, from what I've heard.
>
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