I don't consider myself a Cisco expert either, I've just been using their hardware for the better part of 15 years. I have access to a fair number of good Cisco resources to aid me in selecting and configuring the hardware. I've never liked Cisco firewalls though, go figure.
I actually sized the router based on an estimated max traffic flow of 25Mbps. It does have a very small ACL set running on it, mainly to keep weird stuff from molesting my DMZ hosts (spoofing, etc.) From the DMZ, the speeds are pretty respectable considering the router was only designed to handle a max of 46Mbps. This one is the baby of the 2800 series and will probably be fine when the speed is dropped back down below 25Mbps. Ted Crow Information Technology Manager Tuttle Services, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Mansfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] pfSense 1.2-RELEASE: Performance Issue? It's not clear exactly what the cisco 2801 is doing... does it have access control lists which can make a big difference in speed... AIUI access lists can have two different execution paths and if you write them wrongly they're much more CPU intensive. Sorry, I am not a cisco expert in this instance. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
