System requirements gigabit throughput
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Hello everyone,
We are hosting LAN partys in sweden and have upgraded our wan access.
Our WAN access from the isp should be 1000/1000Mbit but it seems that our gateway is not strong enought to handle the trafik.AMD 1,7Ghz
768MB RAM
80Gb s-ata hd
2xgigabit Intel nic (simular to d-link DGE-530T)
pfsense 1.3 and 2.0 (2 different harddrives)We done alot of testning but can only get 97,6/96Mbit throughput or 108Mbit halfduplex.
We thought the isp didn't deliverd what was told so we connected 1 pc as "ISP" with a gigabit nic and one pc as a "client" with gigabit nic on the lan side but still no difference.Max usage of memory was 117MB ram and barley no swap was used. But the processor was working att 87% at that "high" throughput.
So my question for all of you that got more experiense than me.
What kind of hardware requirements are neccesery to get 400/1000Mbit throughput?I realy hope someone could help me asap.
Best Regards
Percy
www.askersundslan.comPs. it's about 80-200 clients accessing the internet through the gateway. Ds.
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@http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=49:
201-500 Mbps - server class hardware with PCI-X or PCI-e network adapters, or newer desktop hardware with PCI-e network adapters. No less than 2.0 GHz CPU.
501+ Mbps - server class hardware with PCI-X or PCI-e network adapters. No less than 3.0 GHz CPU. -
Thanx Perry for your quick reply.
Thought i search all the forum and wiki for this question but oblesvliy i missed it anyway.
Anyhow thank you verry mush for the reply.Seems like we have to buy som new hardware.
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Thought i search all the forum and wiki for this question but oblesvliy i missed it anyway.
It's on the pfSense web site and not in the forum or wiki.
Here's the link, Perry's quote originates from:
http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=49