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Re: FW-1 throughput question
From: Darren Reed <darrenr () reed wattle id au>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 02:45:01 +1000 (EST)
In some email I received from Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy, sie wrote:
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 06:54:31PM +1000, Darren Reed wrote: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 :-)But I didn't think the IP stack in Linux was SMP either (of course, FreeBSD probably has addressed this problem :-) What I knew was about 4.0. I do not know if 4.1 still holds true to that. Someone who actually works at Check Point would have to answer that question.
As far as I know, 4.0 does not run on Linux or FreeBSD so I fail to see how they are relevant here.
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 ?Both.
Far out. At first you were saying FW-1 on Solaris was going to be slow because of single threaded routing. I get the distinct impression you originally had no idea about whether this was true or not - I put it to you that it is multi-threaded unless there is some global lock I missed. As it is, FW-1 should *not* be routing packets itself, although it may single thread filtering (does anyone have an _authorative_ answer ?). Darren
Current thread:
- FW-1 throughput question Randy Garbrick (May 05)
- Re: FW-1 throughput question Aaron Turner (May 12)
- Re: FW-1 throughput question Darren Reed (May 15)
- Re: FW-1 throughput question Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy (May 17)
- Re: FW-1 throughput question Darren Reed (May 17)
- Re: FW-1 throughput question Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy (May 17)
- Re: FW-1 throughput question Darren Reed (May 17)
- Re: FW-1 throughput question Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy (May 17)
- Re: FW-1 throughput question Darren Reed (May 17)
- Re: FW-1 throughput question Aaron Turner (May 19)
- Re: FW-1 throughput question Ryan Russell (May 19)
- Re: FW-1 throughput question Shaun Moran (May 21)
- Re: FW-1 throughput question Darren Reed (May 15)
- Re: FW-1 throughput question Aaron Turner (May 12)
- Re: FW-1 throughput question Aaron Turner (May 19)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: FW-1 throughput question Alex Goldney (May 12)