From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: Number of concurrent connections? Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:15:53 +0200 Message-ID: <48431189.60604@trash.net> References: <925A849792280C4E80C5461017A4B8A226A315@mail733.InfraSupportEtc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org To: Greg Scott Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:46397 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752138AbYFAVP6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:15:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <925A849792280C4E80C5461017A4B8A226A315@mail733.InfraSupportEtc.com> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Greg Scott wrote: > Hello - > > How fast has anyone pushed netfilter? Assuming I can put together a > beefy enough hardware platform, what are the possibilities of supporting > 1 million concurrent connections with at least 2gb per second stateful > packet filtering throughput? I've heard of a lot bigger setups with multiple (IIRC 10) million concurrent connection. > Let's say I can get my hands on 10gb NICs - how fast can netfilter push > them? I don't know, but I'd be interested in that too :)