On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Cihan Saglamoz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is pfsense supports quad core cpus?
>
>
> I have a pfsense running on a box with quad core cpu and 3 gb memory. It has
> a server mainboard and Gbit intel NIC over it.
>
> I am using it as a SYN Proxy after 60 mbits/s attack it is not possible to
> connect to firewall and servers behind the firewall.
>

You're probably exhausting your state table, increase its limit under
System>Advanced.


> On shell I see that tcpdump and syslog uses cpu very much. And I see only
> one cpu on "top" command.  Is there another way for checking it?
>
> Which feature uses tcpdump?  Can I close it?

logging, don't kill it.


> Do you know some ways for
> tuning pfsense to handle more than 60 mbits?
>

Increase the state table is probably all you need to do.

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