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Specs needed for a build for a google fiber WAN using HOME use version"?

I am going to be getting Google fiber at my house soon and would like to put together a server build to run the home version of Sophos that will be able to handle the full gigabit of up and down speed I will have while still using the antivirus and intrusion prevention features. I currently have a 100 Mb connection and am using an older sonic wall but even this goes down to 70 MB whenever I turn on the gateway antivirus and intrusion prevention so there is no way it will handle my new connection.

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0 Scott_Klassen over 8 years ago

That's fine. It'll minimize the hit you'll take to perceived speed, but there will still be a hit. As Ian said, Snort, which UTM uses for IPS, is single-threaded. Makes it near impossible to get full throughput at gigabit speed.

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0 Scott_Klassen over 8 years ago

That's fine. It'll minimize the hit you'll take to perceived speed, but there will still be a hit. As Ian said, Snort, which UTM uses for IPS, is single-threaded. Makes it near impossible to get full throughput at gigabit speed.

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0 chriswise over 8 years ago in reply to Scott_Klassen

Does the commercial version of the software do something different to be able to achieve higher throughput of the ips?
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