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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