jamona perez wrote:
Hi,
I know this topic comes over regularly, but searching through the
archives, thread often ends with "I'll post the results", but...
So here is my question : I plan on getting a pair of Dell PE 860 for
building a high-availability high-performance transparent firewall. I
already understood that I should get extra Intel NICs to be at best.
I'm planning on using the integrated broadcom NIC's for OPT and CARP
interfaces.
performance requirements are : throughput up to 500 Mb/s and 15K new
conn/s at peak times (about 1.5 million "sessions" with 60 sec timeout
-this figures comes from my linux cluster, 60 sec is the highest
tcp_xxx_timeout of all "vs" proc entries- ).
Do you think this would be achievable with a Dual Core Intel Xeon with
2 Gb RAM, and would FSB speed and L2 cache make any significant
difference ? should I prefer SAS over SATA (or simply throw away the
hard disk and stuff a cf card+adaptor in it) ?
Also, there was a long thread about pfsense on PE 860, how did the
test finally came up ?
and finally which version would be best (was planning to get 1.2RC1)
I would be glad to make stress test for such installations, but I do
also lacks some traffic generator that could burst such amounts of
connections
thanks in advance for you response
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Something important to keep in mind: CARP and Bridge Mode do not work
together. You will want to keep this in mind while you plan this
installation.
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