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IPS throughput

Hi,

I've installed Sophos UTM Home on an VMWare ESXi server but I have some issues with IPS performance. If I don't enable IPS I get around 450-500 Mbit/s which is expected because that's my downstream. However, if I enable IPS the throughput drop to about 250-260, even if I disable all the signatures.

There are no issues with CPU and memory load, the VM has 4 cores and 4 GB Ram. The CPU load is next to nothing and about 20% of RAM is used.

I've also installed pfSense on the same ESXi and enabled IPS/Snort. pfSense gives me 450-500 Mb/s with IPS enabled.

Is the Sophos UTM Home capped or are there any other known issues?

Best regards,
Tomas

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0 William Warren over 10 years ago

Hi,

I've installed Sophos UTM Home on an VMWare ESXi server but I have some issues with IPS performance. If I don't enable IPS I get around 450-500 Mbit/s which is expected because that's my downstream. However, if I enable IPS the throughput drop to about 250-260, even if I disable all the signatures.

There are no issues with CPU and memory load, the VM has 4 cores and 4 GB Ram. The CPU load is next to nothing and about 20% of RAM is used.

I've also installed pfSense on the same ESXi and enabled IPS/Snort. pfSense gives me 450-500 Mb/s with IPS enabled.

Is the Sophos UTM Home capped or are there any other known issues?

Best regards,
Tomas

some questions:
how many users? what is wan up and down? what other features are in use besides ips? most importantly what is the ghz per core of the HOST machine?

Owner: Emmanuel Technology Consulting

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Former Sophos SG(Astaro) advocate/researcher/Silver Partner

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0 William Warren over 10 years ago

Hi,

I've installed Sophos UTM Home on an VMWare ESXi server but I have some issues with IPS performance. If I don't enable IPS I get around 450-500 Mbit/s which is expected because that's my downstream. However, if I enable IPS the throughput drop to about 250-260, even if I disable all the signatures.

There are no issues with CPU and memory load, the VM has 4 cores and 4 GB Ram. The CPU load is next to nothing and about 20% of RAM is used.

I've also installed pfSense on the same ESXi and enabled IPS/Snort. pfSense gives me 450-500 Mb/s with IPS enabled.

Is the Sophos UTM Home capped or are there any other known issues?

Best regards,
Tomas

some questions:
how many users? what is wan up and down? what other features are in use besides ips? most importantly what is the ghz per core of the HOST machine?

Owner: Emmanuel Technology Consulting

http://etc-md.com

Former Sophos SG(Astaro) advocate/researcher/Silver Partner

PfSense w/Suricata, ntopng,

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