[CentOS] Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway

[gjgowey at tmo.blackberry.net]

How about putting the file contents on pastebin and posting the link?

Geoff
Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Bart Schaefer" <barton.schaefer at gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:31:31 
To:"CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway


On 9/10/07, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
> wireshark can process and display packet capture files from tcpdump -w
>
> capture a few megabytes of packets on the appropriate interface of the
> firewall, then transfer them to a workstation with Wireshark for analysis.

OK, I've got some output from "tcpdump -w any" but I don't know
precisely what I'm looking for.  (I'd be happy to take this off-list.)
 I notice that just over 1/3 of the packets are TCP out-of-order
segments and about 4% are duplicate ACKs.

We also dumped eth0 and eth1 separately.  Statistics on the "any"
output show 26Mb/s, but eth0 and eth1 independently are only 10Mb/s
each.

By the way, those interrupts/sec numbers in my earlier message were
off; I chose a bad moment to look at it, when the peak had subsided.
At peak it's more like 2500-3000 interrupts/sec, sometimes as high as
3500.
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