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Hi Jeff, I made some speedtests with another similiar freebsd-product and a VIA C3 Nehemia 1GHz with 2 ViaRhine 100mbit-cards and two Client with 100mbit 3coms directly connected to it. I used netio to measure the speed. Clients directly connected to a switch without the firewall in between measured about 89mbit/s. With the firewall in between (configured like a m0n0wall with default settings doing NAT) I got about 86-87mbit/s. CPU was running at about 75% during the tests. Did several testruns. No noticable delay with that platform. Since the tests were done with a freebsd 6 version and m0n0 runs on freebsd 4.11 networkperformance of a m0n0 on this hardwareplatform should even be better. Holger -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Jeff Ellen [mailto:tgje underscore uiuc at yahoo dot com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. Juli 2005 01:52 An: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch Betreff: [m0n0wall] Speed/Overhead Question Hi there- I've set up a m0n0wall, and haven't used it much, but it seems like it should do everything I would need, but my question has to do with the speed. Does anyone know how much overhead m0n0wall uses? For example, using m0n0wall as a bridge, how does throughput compare to having a simple switch or hub instead (with no m0n0wall at all)? I would think there has to be some overhead if m0n0wall is examining each packet that goes trhough. I realize an exact answer would depend on the specific hardware used to run m0n0wall, but I would like to know any ballpark answer anyone might have to help, or if they know what hardware that would help too. For example, if I am using m0n0wall with 100Mbps ethernet cards, and with regular hardware hubs/switches I get 60Mbps throughput, I would like to see monowall 59Mbps or 58Mbps throughput, as opposed to 50Mbps or 10Mbps, etc. I've looked around through this list, the FAQ, and the 'net and been unable to find an answer. But it would seem to me that this would be a concern for others as well, useful to know. Thanks, -Jeff ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch ____________ Virus checked by G DATA AntiVirusKit |