New user, couple of questions
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Hi, I am a new Pfsense user with very little linux experience. I am pretty good around Windows but linux is big learning curve. I was able to get my firewall up and running with DHCP, UPNP (yes, I know the safety issues with UPNP) enabled and some basic port forwarding for my servers (Teamspeak 3 and Source Dedicated servers). Everything is working well (although I haven't pushed anything yet) but I have a couple questions:
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I did some reading on MBUF and I am a little concerned about mine (582/780). I have 1GB ram and a AMD 3000+ 939 CPU (single core) +2 x Intel Pro 1000 nics. Is there a way to allocated more MBUFs or is this fine?
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Are there any general tweaks or settings besides the basics that I should be aware of? I want to optimize my network for latency since I host game servers.
Thanks in advance.
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pfSense is based on FreeBSD not Linux.
You could add more ram but I doubt it's needed.
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/What_are_mbufs%3F
Increase your state table size instead.
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/How_can_I_increase_the_state_table_size%3F
A good read.
http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=49
http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=509 -
That just shows you how little I know ::)
Any recommendations on how big I should go?
Thanks for the links.