I'm testing out the ASG version 6.300 with the 30 day trial license on a Dell 4100 1 GHz box with 384 MB of RAM. I ran du on the console and all the partitions were around 5% use except for /var/sec which was 27% and the file systems which were 73%.
I have a cable modem on one side which usually delivers around 6 Mb/s and my lan on the other. I have tried several scenarios, but in every one the transfer rate for a HTTP file download is significantly slower than if I go straight through. Through ASG it settles at around 30 to 40 KB/s, straight through it settles at around 600 to 700 KB/s.
Some of the scenarios:
- Using NAT, DNS proxy, HTTP proxy with everything on including both AV engines and filtering
- Using NAT, DNS proxy, HTTP proxy with no filtering and only one AV engine turned on
- Without NAT, with DNS proxy
- A few others, but I think that covers the spectrum.
Each one of the above setups performs essentially the same: 30 to 40 kB/s.
Is this normal? Does this box not have enough horsepower? What is the typical percentage of bandwidth sacrificed to perform the functions that the ASG software delivers with just packet filtering? How about with everything turned on?
If this is not normal for this config, what could be going on?
Thanks in advance,
Mitch Baker
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