On 22/02/2011 12:49, Nick Knight wrote: > Hi All, > > I am looking to get a feeling for the capability of the soekris > equipment. I have been using the net 4501 for a number of years and just > started looking at the 5501. > > As Internet speeds are increasing so has the requirements on these devices. > > So what experiences do you have of getting high speed through put and on > what OS/device etc. > > We have only taken the net 5501 up to around 20MB, throughput - will you > get more through it?
I am currently using the 5501 as a firewall, with a separate dual-ADSL router, and it's perfectly fine. And it's responsive if I VPN back home from work. My lines only run to a few MBits/sec, so I'm nowhere near loading my 5501. Just one caveat... In the past, I used the 5501 to terminate an ADSL PPP session (using a Draytek Vigor 120 ADSL modem), and the NET5501 CPU usage was a bit higher. The ADSL PPP session would fail and restart under one particular type of extreme load: running security audit software to perform intense port-scans against many targets simultaneously, resulting in a very high number of very small packets-per-second. I never established whether that PPP issue was due to limited CPU power, or whether the PPP over ADSL protocol somehow couldn't cope when faced with a ridiculous number of tiny little packets. It just seemed safer to VPN out to a data centre and run my security audits from there. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
