Week 09

Posted on by Sinhara Silva

I am going to blog about first Fortinet firewall performance test case created using Xena packet generator.

Test : Unicast throughput test


Aim : Confirm the maximum possible unicast throughput for different frame sizes.


Test Setup : XENA connected to a 10Gbps input port on Firewall and a 10Gbps output port on Firewall


Configuration: Unicast policy configured to permit UDP traffic from source IP 192.168.1.1 to destination IP 192.168.2.1


Expected Result: 1500D should be capable of close to line rate depending on the frame length.


Below is a diagram of the test setup:

Test results:
The following frame sizes and rates passed without drops:

*because of VLAN tag and UDP payload being added to packet, minimum frame size had to be set to 72 bytes to accommodate full packet with embedded XENA sequence number

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