QMC_IT

Hi Tom, This has indeed been the case. Smoothwall have managed to work some magic as, with Maiden installed, we are now seeing 7Gbps throughput! With these speeds, we are happy for now, so thanks to your developers for making this possible.

Yep, Smoothwall direct via SFP+ fibre connection at 10Gbps. We also got a SFP+ network card for a PC, so we connected it directly to the Smoothwall LAN interface, and managed the 3-4Gbps mentioned previously. This was a iperf test to a JISC test server. We also tried it via the core and got the same. Connecting directly to the router got us 10Gbps, hence we knew the bottleneck was somewhere inside our network. Thanks,

Hi Steve, Thanks for your reply. Apologies, you are correct, I should have been more specific. This is running only the Guardian module: https://help.smoothwall.net/FilterFirewall/Content/7Guardian/Guardian.htm Of these, we don't even run all of them. For example, we have disabled HTTPS inspection, so only basic traffic is monitored. We don't run any VPN's, Proxy's or SMTP services as these are handled elsewhere. Based on our usage, we were told before purchase that we should expect between 7-8Gbps, whereas, as I said previously, we are getting much less than that in practice. I suspect this is going to be the maximum we are going to be able to achieve from our appliance, but I was wondering if anyone had had any direct experience for comparison sake.

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone here has a S15 appliance with a 10Gbps Leased Line connection? We recently moved to 10Gbps on the understanding that the firewall was capable of near these speeds, but have subsequently been told that above 3-4Gbps is unlikely as the appliance cannot provide the throughput for more. So, does anyone have any experience of this please? Thank you.

Hi Tom, I have sent you an email. Thanks.

Hi, Thanks for the reply. It is not actually a ticket, more a range of config changes that we have been trying to get resolved with support for some time now. However, our requests for updates go unnoticed and the current config is causing us a lot of trouble, hence trying to source a 3rd party vendor that is familiar with the system that might be able to help.

I wasn't actually around when it was originally purchased, but I was told it was via Smoothwall directly. Thanks.

Hello all, I don't suppose someone could recommend a 3rd party company that does consultancy for Smoothwall? Ours is doing some funny things, and generally just isn't configured very well, so we were hoping for some expertise that might be able to offer assistance. And yes, we have tried Smoothwall themselves, but since we have been waiting since June for a simple update, I can't really rely on them to get anything done. Thanks.