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 :) > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
