If you guys want a test... Lets think about this..

I use m0n0wall on my network as the edge firewall.. I have it directly 
routing about 5000 users to the internet (albeit around 400 - 500 at any 
one time) and my m0n0wall runs fine.. Its currently running on a AMD 
Athlon XP 2700 box with 512MB DDR running m0n0 1.2b3, my load on my proc 
goes to about 15% and memory usage 10% (highest ive ever seen it).. The 
box runs four different nics  (all 3com cards) and its the best firewall 
ive ever used on my network.

Regards

:)

pmok at optushome dot com dot au wrote:

>Test?
>
>Don't know...Put it this way, when America's Army 2.0 came
>out, many routers like those Linksys ones failed because of
>the ridiculous number of connections the game made when
>you started the game and played online.
>
>When I say failed, I mean they locked up and required a reset.
>Some were fixed via flash update, and others were never fixed.
>(A typical home router has a capacity of 255 concurrent connections)
>
>Back then, I explored various firewall distros along with M0n0Wall.
>
>Through Gnatbox Light (a commercial-based floppy firewall based
>on FreeBSD, but restricted to 200 concurrent connections), I found
>that the game required just under 200 concurrent connections just
>to play one online round! (A typical round goes for about 10min)
>
>To play the game for hours and be able to surf and email on other PCs
>within the LAN, I tried Linux-based CoyoteLinux and M0n0Wall.
>I went with M0n0Wall as I had little Linux knowledge at the time
>and was afraid if I'd screw up, I might introduce a security issue to
>my network.In any case, it was way more than 200 concurrent
>connections.
>
>Anyway, I think the number of connections you can throw at
>M0n0Wall is quite a bit. Compared to typical router solutions
>for home users, you have more CPU and memory to play with,
>and its not surprising that folks out there can use M0n0Wall on a
>far larger network.
>
>I guess you should go to google.com and search for something
>like => test maximum number of concurrent connections
>
>But I don't think you'll find a definite answer. It'll depend on your
>settings and configuration of your M0n0Wall that will determine
>your max number of connections your "firewall PC" can sustain.
>
>Atm, I can have 3 PCs doing P2P and 2 playing on America's
>Army without a problem, I'm sure it can do more. (Have 128MB
>RAM on a Celeron 366Mhz, since that's what I had lying around).
>
>If you know what you're doing, you can setup a few PCs and
>network it to the M0n0Wall box to try and simulate the max
>number of connections your box can handle just to get a rough
>idea.
>
>Regards
>-Stmok
>
>
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>To: "m0n0wall general" <m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch>
>Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 8:02 AM
>Subject: [m0n0wall] Performance question
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>>I have replace my linksys home router with the M0n0wall runnig on some
>>old hardware I have and I think it is faster. The main thing is I think
>>it can handle more conections that the linksys router but can not be sure.
>>
>>Does anyone know of a way to test this?
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