Miscellany

~# ip a&&ethstats
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
    inet 84.XX.XX.XX/XX brd 84.XX.XX.XX scope global eth1

total:    66.34 Mb/s In    66.04 Mb/s Out -   8935.8 p/s In    8928.3 p/s Out
  eth0:    1.72 Mb/s In    64.48 Mb/s Out -   3590.0 p/s In    5326.0 p/s Out
  eth1:   64.62 Mb/s In     1.56 Mb/s Out -   5345.8 p/s In    3602.3 p/s Out
total:    88.14 Mb/s In    87.79 Mb/s Out -  11835.6 p/s In   11827.9 p/s Out
  eth0:    2.27 Mb/s In    85.73 Mb/s Out -   4735.6 p/s In    7079.6 p/s Out
  eth1:   85.87 Mb/s In     2.05 Mb/s Out -   7100.0 p/s In    4748.3 p/s Out
total:    85.25 Mb/s In    84.90 Mb/s Out -  11448.5 p/s In   11441.7 p/s Out
  eth0:    2.20 Mb/s In    82.91 Mb/s Out -   4581.0 p/s In    6847.6 p/s Out
  eth1:   83.05 Mb/s In     1.99 Mb/s Out -   6867.5 p/s In    4594.1 p/s Out
total:    92.66 Mb/s In    92.29 Mb/s Out -  12420.9 p/s In   12413.6 p/s Out
  eth0:    2.38 Mb/s In    90.15 Mb/s Out -   4956.5 p/s In    7444.5 p/s Out
  eth1:   90.28 Mb/s In     2.15 Mb/s Out -   7464.4 p/s In    4969.1 p/s Out

iptables, ids & routing in peaks at aprox ~85Mbit/s still generates;
load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00