Bart Schaefer wrote:
On 9/10/07, Bart Schaefer barton.schaefer@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/10/07, Guy Boisvert boisvert.guy@videotron.ca wrote:
On top of that, i'd say that a PC, with whatever processor you could put, is able to service a certain amount of interrupts / second.
# cat /proc/interrupts
Ok, so obviously just that snapshot wasn't very useful, sorry.
Several minutes of "vmstat 2" output indicates that the number of interrupts per second on the NAT gateway ranges between 600 and 1200, occasionally as low as 540 or as high as 1300.
(Working on getting wireshark in a place where we can monitor both ends.)
wireshark can process and display packet capture files from tcpdump -w filename, or most any other packet capture utility, as well as capture data itself.
capture a few megabytes of packets on the appropriate interface of the firewall, then transfer them to a workstation with Wireshark for analysis.