[aklug] Re: My new firewall is fast!

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Damien Hull wrote:

[snip]

> I found something out I wasn't expecting. The old firewall is slow. I
> should have been getting 3 Megabits down.
>
> * The old firewall got 1 down and about 650 kilobits up
> * The new firewall gets 3 down and about the same up
>
> I had my service changed to 10 Megabit down and 1 megabit up. I want to
> make sure I have enough bandwidth before I make the switch. Any way, the
> old firewall can't handle the speed. Could be a network card issue. Not
> sure at this point.

[snip]

That's *got* to be a NIC issue. I can't believe that a PIII could be the
limitation, regardless of the speed unless you had a huge amount of
filtering rules, or something else sucking cpu. Can you post what type of
NICs you had in the old and new firewalls?

Mike
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Received on Fri Feb 1 21:01:24 2008