Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 12:54:26 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router Message-ID: <199506241954.MAA00491@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Jun 95 12:14:36 PDT." <199506241914.MAA13409@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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>> This is not necessary to get good throughput, although it wouldn't hurt. You >> can still get 5mbs without this, which is plenty. > >Not when you start looking at 100MB/sec ethernet it isn't!!! Sure 400 to 500 >KByte/sec for 10MB/sec ethernet routing is just fine by me, but as soon as >I reproduce the numbers for 100MB/sec routing you will see what I mean >about we need to make some improvements. > >We need to get that routing performance into the 50MB/sec range and we are >not even close. (I seem to recall about 20MB/sec, but am not sure right >now, too many numbers floating around in my head). On a fast Pentium, it is possible to route packets at a rate >70Mbits/sec in FreeBSD-current. ...but this is talking raw data throughput. In terms of packets/sec, we don't do so well...about 10000 packets/sec is about tops. This is less than 1/10th the capability of 100BASE-TX. -DG
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