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Outbound TCP Throughput

Figure 4 and Table 4 show outbound TCP throughput for 512, 1024, and 8192 byte packets with

three IPFilter statuses: no IPFilter installed, IPFilter without rules, and IPFilter with rules.

Figure 4 Outbound TCP Throughput

Outbound TCP Throughput

840

860

880

900

920

940

960

512 1024 8192

Packet Size (Bytes)

Throughput (Mb/s)

No IPFilter

IPFilter without Rules

IPFilter with Rules

Table 4 Outbound TCP Throughput

Packet Size Throughput without

IPFilter (Mb/s)

Throughput with IPFilter and

No Rules (Mb/s)

Throughput with IPFilter

Rules (Mb/s)

512 924.52 922.01

(0.27% decrease)

878.1

(5.02% decrease)

1024 925.28 925.49

(less than 0.00% decrease)

925.26

(0.00% decrease)

8192 943.09 942.73

(0.04% decrease)

942.58

(0.05% decrease)