Re: PII fast enough for firewall
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On 12/02/07 22:22, John Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a 15K Mbs connection (up/down) to my house (fiber to the home).
>
> I have a Buffalo router that connects to my WAN and then one of the LAN ports
> on this router connects to my IPCOP firewall that is running on a PII -- 400
> MHz box with 64 MB of RAM.
>
> When I do a speed test from my box behind my IPCOP firewall, I get about 10K
> Mbs up/down.
>
> If I move the connection to one of the Buffalo router LAN connections, I get
> the advertised 15K Mbs up/down speed.
>
> So routing traffic thru the IPCOP firewall slows things down quite a bit. Is
> this to be expected?
It is if IPCOP puts a load on the CPU or starts swapping memory.
Does it?
> I was thinking of changing the firewall to a debian box
> running shorewall, and was wondering if I could tweak the firewall/router to
> not slow things down appreciably like the ipcop box is doing.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
%SYSTEM-F-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels
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