From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 24 9:31:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shell.bchosting.com (shell.bchosting.com [64.69.68.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3670D37B403 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:31:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@selkie.org) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by shell.bchosting.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f6OGV3o19175 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:31:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@selkie.org) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:31:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Phillips X-Sender: chris@shell.bchosting.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Router Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey, I always hear people joking about how their 486 would make a great router. I have a P166 w/ 128MB ram and three intel 10/100 NICs running as my firewall/router. During peak times it is starting to have packet loss. At what point is it too much for this kind of hardware? Does anyone have any similar experiences? Is the packet loss a direct result from lack of processing power? There is approximately 250 ipfw rules. [root@gateway1 /root]# w 9:26AM up 414 days, 12:54, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT root p0 penguin Thu08PM - w [root@gateway1 /root]# vmstat procs memory page disks faults cpu r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr ad0 md0 in sy cs us sy id 0 0 0 3236 79424 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 771 7 2 0 7 93 Anyone have any other suggestions for the packet loss? Peak times can be up to 6mbit/s sustained. This box routes 3 different subnets that add up to 256 IPs. There are two Catalyst 3524s sitting behind it. I'm not sure what other info I should include. All comments/suggestions are appreciated. Thanks. -Chris Phillips P.S. Please CC me as I am not on the list. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message