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RE: High Speed Firewalls
From: "Linder, Daniel G." <Daniel.Linder () NorstanConsulting com>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:30:41 -0600
Excuse me if this has been hashed through before, but there are a couple other things that I have not heard discussed in reference to throughput but I'll bring them up anyway: 1 - Have you tried just doing a "time dd if=/path/to/12.5MB.file of=/dev/null"? This will tell you the maximum speed the server (assuming UNIX) can pull the file off of the hard drive. 2 - Try "time dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/12.5MB.file bs=500k count=25"? This will (if I did my math right!) create a 12.5MB file from the /dev/zero device. This should show how quickly the server (again UNIX) can blast 12.5MB to the drive. 3 - Try disabling *EVERY* daemon/service and just doing the FTP and/or the above tests. I am certain that even a stripped down OS will cause some contention. Dan
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