Re: FW-1 throughput question

[Darren Reed <darrenr () reed wattle id au>]

In some email I received from Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy, sie wrote:
> On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 11:38:35PM +1000, Darren Reed wrote:
>
> > Hmmm.  What makes you believe it is single threaded ?
>
> According to what I know, the kernel module does not take advantage of
> multiple processors.

This is for FW-1 then ?  If so, then that's another reason to can FW-1
and use IP Filter instead :-)

> I don't know if that means it's single threaded or
> not, but take it for what it's worth. The Security Server processes *do*
> take advantage of multiple processors (have since 4.0).

Err, what are you talking here - NT or Solaris ?

Darren