IPS performance on Dell R210 II?
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I have spectrum 940Mb down and 35Mb up and im wondering if I can enable IPS without bottlenecking my network. This will be my first Pfsense build my USG pro died and I wanted to try something diffrent.
This is what I ordered https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Dell-Poweredge-R210-II-1U-Server-Xeon-E3-1220-3-10-GHz-8GB-500GB-Rails/372413160366?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649
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Probably.
I was running a test to an E3-1225v2 earlier and accidentally left Suricata running on the WAN. It still passed traffic at Gigabit line rate without a problem.That was an artificial test of large packets and the CPU required by IPS is largely dependent on how it's configured. I would expect it to be possible though you might have to tune it rather than just selecting everything.
Steve
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Thanks for the reply you were correct.
I’m running Suricata and Pfblockerng and Ntop and I’m able to speed test at my full connection. This is something I couldn’t do with my USG Pro with IPS disabled, so I am very pleased. CPU usage when doing multiple speed tests hits around 60%.
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Great. Thanks for the follow-up.
Steve
