Re: [Fwbuilder-discussion] Maximum firewall packets throughput..

[Lupe C. <lu...@lu...>]

On Thursday, 2011-06-02 at 10:51:24 -0400, Luc Paulin wrote:
> Is anyone know how we can calculate the maximum packet throughput of a
> firewall.
> Our network is becoming very slow once in a while, and when that happen I
> notice that our firewall show an average of 155K to 160K packets/seconds and
> therefore I suspect that we may be close to a limit, However I didn't find
> any relevant information the number of packets iptables can handle..

I suppose iptables gets CPU-limited, it should not use any significant
amount of memory. It is possible that it is not capaple of using
multiple CPUs simultaneously, I don't know.

So - what is the system CPU load on your firewall?

HTH,
Lupe Christoph
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