HP-UX IPFilter Performance White Paper

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Inbound TCP Throughput
Figure 1 and Table 1 show inbound TCP throughput for 512, 1024, and 8192 byte packets with
three IPFilter statuses: no IPFilter installed, IPFilter without rules, and IPFilter with rules.
Figure 1 Inbound TCP Throughput
Inbound TCP Throughput
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512 1024 8192
Packet Size (Bytes)
Throughput (Mb/s)
No IPFilter
IPFilter without Rules
IPFilter with Rules
Table 1 Inbound TCP Throughput
Packet Size Throughput without
IPFilter (Mb/s)
Throughput with IPFilter and
No Rules (Mb/s)
Throughput with IPFilter
Rules (Mb/s)
512 914.59 913.29
(0.14% decrease)
855.91
(6.42% decrease)
1024 925.83 925.78
(0.01% decrease)
912.82
(1.41% decrease)
8192 942.39 942.96
(less than 0.00% decrease)
942.84
(less than 0.00% decrease)