From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 20 03:56:26 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ACB7106564A for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:56:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email2.allantgroup.com (email2.emsphone.com [199.67.51.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FB398FC16 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:56:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email2.allantgroup.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p6K3uNES061074 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:56:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id p6K3uNDx057624 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:56:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id p6K3uMG8057623; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:56:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:56:22 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Rogelio Message-ID: <20110720035622.GP6611@dan.emsphone.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97 at email2.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (email2.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:56:23 -0500 (CDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 199.67.51.78 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: high performance open source DHCP solution? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:56:26 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 19), Rogelio said: > The free DHCP solution, ISC, seems to be having scaling issues (i.e. > handling only about 200 DHCPDISCOVER and 20 DHCPRENEW requests), and I > was wondering if anyone had any open source suggestions of solutions > that could scale much better? 200 per second sounds like pretty good performance, but you haven't given any info about your setup either. Are you disk bound or CPU bound at this point? -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com