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Dual core CPUs - do they improve the performance?

Hi,
I have been reading up on some the theory of UTM from one of the security reviews. One issue they make much out of is the proxies make heavy work out packet analysis while the packet filter component is very quick in passing the traffic through.

So there are a couple of questions in my mind
1/. is the ASG software capable of using dual CPUs correctly?
2/. is the ASG software capable of assigning the proxies to one CPU and the packet filter/IDS/IPS and helpers to the other CPU?

Ian M[[:)]][[:)]][:S]

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0 BarryG over 18 years ago

2/. is the ASG software capable of assigning the proxies to one CPU and the packet filter/IDS/IPS and helpers to the other CPU?

Yes... those things are handled by separate "applications" so they can be run on multiple CPUs simultaneously.
(PF is kernel, IPS is the Snort application, and proxies are all separate apps.)

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0 BarryG over 18 years ago

2/. is the ASG software capable of assigning the proxies to one CPU and the packet filter/IDS/IPS and helpers to the other CPU?

Yes... those things are handled by separate "applications" so they can be run on multiple CPUs simultaneously.
(PF is kernel, IPS is the Snort application, and proxies are all separate apps.)

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