[c-nsp] FWSM CPU ?

[matthew zeier]

During the Firefox 1.5.0.7 release, we had a mirror drop offline and 
pushed nearly 1Gbps out the FWSM with no more than 5% CPU load.  That 
was a lot of http & ftp traffic.

Voll, Scott wrote:
> We have more interfaces, less data rate, = ACL and we see a lot less CPU
> (1-2%).
> 
> Scott
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Lajber Zoltan
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 10:10 AM
> To: Dean Smith
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] FWSM CPU ?
> 
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Dean Smith wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone have any real world throughput/NAT vs CPU stats for FWSM ?
>>
>> Of course it will be down to rulebase/NAT complexity etc, but trying
> to
>> gauge what we might see in real life.
> 
> We have one fwsm with some load: 6 internal interface, each PAT-et to
> different address (one of them PAT-et to two addresses).
> 
> The daily load:
> connectionos: average 65k, max 120k,
> data rate: average 82Mbps, max 151Mbps,
> cpu load: avg 5.6%, max 12%.
> 
> No fancy things, near default inspections, very few acl lines (~100 per
> interfaces).
> 
> Bye,
> -=Lajbi=----------------------------------------------------------------
>  LAJBER Zoltan               Szent Istvan Egyetem,  Informatika Hivatal
>                  reboot, reinstall, google
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