HOWTO : Performance Test on Croissants

Croissants is an Intrusion Detection and Prevention System and it is running AF_PACKET as inline mode.

Hardware

Croissants :

Motherboard : ASRock Rack C2750D4I server board
CPU : Intel Atom C2750
RAM : 4 x 8GB (32GB) DDR3-1600

The performance of C2750 is similar to Xeon E3-1220L. Please refer to the comparison page at here.

Laptop(A) :

Model : Lenovo Thinkpad X200
RAM : 4 GB

Laptop(B) :

Model : Lenovo Thinkpad X201s
RAM : 8 GB

Software

Croissants

Croissants is installed with nsm_install_4core_16ram (version 0.1.5 dated July 13, 2015).

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install glances

Laptop(A) and Laptop(B)

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install iperf

Connection

Laptop(A) --- Croissants --- Laptop(B)

Laptop(A) is set to 111.111.111.111 IP address and it is acting as server of iperf.

Laptop(B) is set to 111.111.111.112 IP address and it is acting as client of iperf.

Make sure Laptop(A) and Laptop(B) are pingable.

Performance Test

Croissants

glances

Laptop(A)

sudo iperf -s -p 80

Laptop(B)

sudo iperf -c 111.111.111.111 -p 80 -P 50

Result

Crossiants - about 920 Mbps
Laptop(B) - about 820 Mbps

That's all! See you.