How is throughput measured?

geek00990

Question About https://store.pfsense.org/C2758/

It says 941 Mbps max throughtput. Is that per port by any chance so 941x number of ports?
I am trying to submit a comparison sheet of that device with one of the commercial firewalls.

Can someone clarify how would I compare the throughput numbers to Cyberoam 100ING
which according to their datasheet is as follows: https://www.cyberoam.com/downloads/datasheet/CyberoamCR100iNG.pdf

System Performance*
Firewall Throughput (UDP) (Mbps)
8000

Firewall Throughput (TCP) (Mbps)
5000

New sessions/second
60000

Concurrent sessions
3,000,000

IPSec VPN Throughput (Mbps)
1050

No. of IPSec Tunnels
4000

SSL VPN Throughput (Mbps)
400

WAF Protected Throughput (Mbps)
700

Anti-Virus Throughput (Mbps)
2200

IPS Throughput (Mbps)
2200

UTM Throughput (Mbps)
1050

Can anyone recommend a way to compare them? The pfsense numbers seem really low But I might be missing something.

tirsojrp

Thing is, those numbers usually represent top throughput when the firewall is not doing anything else.

See that asterisk you copied? You forgot the footnotes:

*Antivirus, IPS and UTM performance is measured based on HTTP traffic as per RFC 3511 guidelines. Actual performance may vary depending on the real network traffic environments.

Ex: Don't expect to see 400mbps of SSL VPN while 2200mbps of IPS or AntiVirus.

Testing methodology:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3511

geek00990

What About https://store.pfsense.org/C2758/ ? How much throughput would it theoretically provide at 100% CPU (assuming we send traffic from all 8 ports simultaneously)

whosmatt

@YQ:

What About https://store.pfsense.org/C2758/ ? How much throughput would it theoretically provide at 100% CPU (assuming we send traffic from all 8 ports simultaneously)

That's a 4 port device, not 8, if I'm not mistaken. I believe the stated throughput is between any 2 ports in a single direction. That's the max that could be expected of any 1Gbps port. I'd expect the total throughput, say if you were routing between port 1 and 2 and again between 3 and 4, to be somewhat higher, but I can't say with any degree of certainty.

Reece5646

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