| I'm having a strange performance problem with a SparcStation 20
| regarding packet forwarding.
| The machine in question is equipped with two hme's in 100-FDX mode,
| running ipfilter.
|
| Now, the maximum throughput I've been able to achieve, is 2.57MB/s,
| measured using wget to pull a large (>500 MB) file from one side of the
| firewall to another.
| I first thought it to be a HW issue, since I used old Big Macs (be)
| before,
| but even after switching to hme's, the performance is exactly the same 
| (~2.5 MB/s). The state table  has been empty except for the test
| connection 
| during testing, so I don't think it is ipf.
|
| This is strange, because I've reached over 7 MB/s throughputs with
| Solaris 8 running ipfilter on the very same platform.  Am I missing
| something,
| or is this the "maximum", that can be reached with NetBSD/sparc? Also 
| I'm seeing collisions on hme1.
| This is VERY strange, because the other end terminates to a HP Procurve
| switch, which IS full-duplex.

What's the CPU usage during this test?

Eduardo