100Mbit Hardware Config Anyone?
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Anyone done some testing of throughput? My ISP pumped up my connection to 100Mbit and I had to toss my old Linksys router out the window.
I was thinking on buying some "old" comp at arround 1Ghz and making it into a firewall. Would that be enough to get ~100Mbit ftp speeds?
/DaK/
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My Via C3 Nehemia 1 GHz can go that speed so depending on concurrent states you should be good with that kind of processorspeed.
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Is there anything in particullar I should think about when browsing for an old computer to buy. I checked out the Hardware compability page but frankly thats a whole lot of mumbo jumbo for me.
I read somewhere that rtl NIC:s dont work well - is that realtek?
/DaK/
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Realtek nics are cheap but known to not have best performance. Basically you should look that you get good nics (like intel) in combination with a fast pci bus on the boards.
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Thanx for the input – i just want to say I love these kinds of forums much more then the mailinglists.
/DaK/
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Alright installed pfSense on a P2 266Mhz 196Mb RAM ( HD installation ) - my connection is 100/10 Mbit but i get ~80/12 using some bandwidth test to fast servers close to me.
With pfSense on my old PC im getting ~70/12 to the server with the bandwidth test -
When uploading with a torrent client at ~10Mbit I get ~45Mbit download speeds ( DC++ and torrents ). Closing down the torrent software boosts the download speed to ~60Mbit.
All in all im happy with this… Ill keep an eye out on a faster computer to run the firewall onl - but i dont really need more speed. Better then my old Linsys router @ 25Mbit anyway.
And i dont know much about how to REALLY test throughput etc.
Anyway what now? Whats next? -- any other cool funktions I can mess with? - Im kinda tired of port forwarding hehehe...
/DaK/
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Work your way from top to down of the features list at pfsense.com ;D
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I just found the aditionall packages option – trying this port knocking crap now hehe...
/DaK/
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1 have 1GHz P3 and 512 Mb RAM with Intel Server DualPort Server Cards and have 100MBit wirespeed performance