If you don't mind me asking, what hardware are you running pfsense on
for these tests?

Scott

On 10/30/05, Peter Zaitsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 15:31 -0400, Scott Ullrich wrote:
> > How many users have 50,000 states?  I doubt very many!
>
> Yet....
>
> I got to this point just running about 500 requests/sec  in apache
> benchmark.  No keepalive.
>
> Once you get more of pfsense installations in data centers I guess it
> will be quite typical.
>
> Why do I think it is especially attractive ?  Well because for home use
> you can buy firewall pretty cheap.  The same applies for small business
> usage - there are solutions going for below 500$ costing just  a bit
> more than decent hardware for pfsense would.
>
> If you look at higher end firewalls, ie for collocation purposes - you
> instantly get to be charged a lot of money.  I've looked at PIX,
> Watchguard, SonicWall, Netscreen and few others before going to
> pfsense.
>
> I spoke to the people using them and found it is not exactly problem
> less and not paramount in stability.
>
> You also forced to get support/update contract - you will not even get
> bug fixes without it, which all gets it pretty expensive.
>
> Finally some people who had some peoblems with firewall which could not
> be resolved by vendor ended up selling it on Ebay.   With pfSense
> running on commodity hardware it is not the case  - if I'm not happy
> with it for some reason I can try different firewall solution or simply
> put OpenBSD or any other OS on it and set it up as firewall.
>
> I love flexibility and hate vendor lockin
>
>
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > On 10/30/05, Peter Zaitsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 14:29 -0400, Scott Ullrich wrote:
> > > > With that amount of states it does not surprise me.  You're most
> > > > likely better of doing a pfctl -ss and using grep to find what your
> > > > looking for.
> > >
> > > Yes...  It is however not total excuse for web page simply not loading.
> > > It would look like a bug to normal user :)
> > >
> > >
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