Performance.
IPFIREwall has been tested also under the performance point of view,
by means of command copy between a machine running the filter
and another one without it, with a samba share of the last mounted
on a directory of IPFIRE host.
Here there's a table reporting the results of the time measurements, accomplished
with the aim of the program time.
The object copied was a directory made up of other files and directories and 215.7 MBytes big.
WITHOUT IPFIRE WITH IPFIRE WITH IPTABLES 37.716s 39,075s 38,203s 37,078s 36,372s 36,689s 38,472s 37,219s 39,183s 38,380s 39,432s 37,457s 38,683s 36,529s 38,316s 36,698s 37,224s 39,835s ---------- ---------- ---------- 37,838s 37,642s 38,2805 MEAN VALUES
A lot of course of other measurements and performance tests would have been done, but this one underlines that IPFIRE in a common case does not add so much load to data transfer through the network.