Symmetrical gigabit and performance of the Netgate 6100
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How does the Netgate 6100 handle 1000/1000 Mbit/s connections?
I'd like to make full use of my symmetrical gigabit connection.
Also, what happens when I start inspecting traffic or enable other intelligent functionality? Will it still be able to process gigabit?
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@eirikrcoquere 1000/1000 is not an issue for the 6100, regardless of it being singe stream use or hundreds of clients in thousands of sessions - all with fx suricata inspection and ntopNG monitoring enabled.
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@keyser said in Symmetrical gigabit and performance of the Netgate 6100:
@eirikrcoquere 1000/1000 is not an issue for the 6100, regardless of it being singe stream use or hundreds of clients in thousands of sessions - all with fx suricata inspection and ntopNG monitoring enabled.
Nice! How would the Netgate 2100 perform under these conditions?
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@eirikrcoquere said in Symmetrical gigabit and performance of the Netgate 6100:
@keyser said in Symmetrical gigabit and performance of the Netgate 6100:
@eirikrcoquere 1000/1000 is not an issue for the 6100, regardless of it being singe stream use or hundreds of clients in thousands of sessions - all with fx suricata inspection and ntopNG monitoring enabled.
Nice! How would the Netgate 2100 perform under these conditions?
Funny - It's exactly my situation you are asking into. I had a 300/300 connection which the SG-2100 handled (just) with simple/few suricata rules + ntopNG running and less than 10 clients (slow interface though). If the client count and session count went up a lot, it could no longer fill the pipe.
I upgraded to 500/500 and it could no longer saturate the line - even in single session. So I had to remove suricata and ntopNG and once again it handles the line just fine. even with a lot of users and sessions.
I upgraded to 1000/1000 and the SG-2100 topped out at about 640'ish Mbps (no inspection/monitoring).
So I have just upgraded to a SG-6100 and it handles the 1000/1000 effortless with thousands of sessions, suricata (lot of rules) and ntopNG running. There is definitely room for a lot more throughput in it. My guess is it would handle 2.5Gbit under these circumstances as well.
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@keyser said in Symmetrical gigabit and performance of the Netgate 6100:
I upgraded to 1000/1000 and the SG-2100 topped out at about 640'ish Mbps (no inspection/monitoring).
So I have just upgraded to a SG-6100 and it handles the 1000/1000 effortless with thousands of sessions, suricata (lot of rules) and ntopNG running. There is definitely room for a lot more throughput in it. My guess is it would handle 2.5Gbit under these circumstances as well.Superb. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
