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Date:      Thu, 24 Apr 1997 12:17:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Christopher Sedore <cmsedore@mailbox.syr.edu>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Router statistics
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95.970424120704.25903B-100000@rodan.syr.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199704241351.XAA27716@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>

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Every now and then someone asks about using FreeBSD as a router/firewall. 
I thought I'd post these stats for our router, a P90 with two DEC PCI
ethernet cards (10mbit), and running ipfw for filtering:

$ netstat -I de1
Name  Mtu   Network       Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs Coll
de1   1500  <Link>      00.00.f8.01.29.48 563695622    59 575254062  1500 1378263754
de1   1500  128.230.105/2 rt              563695622    59 575254062  1500 1378263754
$ uptime
11:18AM  up 106 days, 20:35, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
$ uname -a
FreeBSD rt.maxwell.syr.edu 2.2-961014-SNAP FreeBSD 2.2-961014-SNAP #0: Thu Jan  2
13:08:44  1997     cmsedore@rt.maxwell.syr.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/RT i386

Now, I realize that the packet numbers do not appear to be that
impressive.  This is because we rolled the counters so you need to add
2^32 to each count :). Over this roughly 107 day period, we averaged about
1100 packets/second.

-Chris






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