Hello,
I have added a new VLAN to a couple of RB1000 to act as intranet routers/firewalls. I have done many tests and the best I could get is 600Mbps full duplex (600Mbps in at eth3, 600Mbps out at eth1). At those rates, CPU usage rises to 85%-95% and I can perceive increased latency, but nothing to worry about. I have no data about packet sizes.
I'm not using queues nor QoS rules. I have more than 200 firewall/nat/mangle rules, but I have a selector at the beginning of the forward chain which distributes packets acording to source and/or destination IP, so packets don't have to be check against every rule.
How may I increase the performance of my RB1000??
Thank you!