From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 19 21:39:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A205416A41F for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:39:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from volfman@keystreams.com) Received: from mailbox.keystreams.com (mailbox.keystreams.com [207.158.28.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1305743D48 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:39:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from volfman@keystreams.com) Received: (qmail 35488 invoked by uid 1012); 19 Sep 2005 14:34:24 -0700 Received: from 10.8.0.6 by mail.keystreams.com (envelope-from , uid 1009) with qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.86.2/1001. spamassassin: 3.0.4. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms. Clear:RC:0(10.8.0.6):SA:0(-5.9/5.0):. Processed in 3.407291 secs); 19 Sep 2005 21:34:24 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.9 required=5.0 X-Antivirus-Keystreams-Mail-From: volfman@keystreams.com via mail.keystreams.com X-Antivirus-Keystreams: 1.25-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(10.8.0.6):SA:0(-5.9/5.0):. Processed in 3.407291 secs Process 35456) Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.8.0.6?) (volfman@keystreams.com@10.8.0.6) by mailbox.keystreams.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 19 Sep 2005 14:34:20 -0700 Message-ID: <432F3013.7090001@keystreams.com> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:39:31 -0700 From: Roman Volf User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pi@LF.net References: <432EC4FF.4030706@lvdx.com> <20050919205757.GI62233@complx.LF.net> In-Reply-To: <20050919205757.GI62233@complx.LF.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD, quagga (BGP) and 2950 VLANs X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:39:42 -0000 Kurt Jaeger wrote: >Hallo, > > > >>I'm planning to connect the FreeBSD server to a trunk port on a Cisco >>2950 and put each interconnected IP provider into a separate VLAN. The >>documentation I've read so far suggests that FreeBSD is happy with VLANs >>- will this arrangement work and will it have any significant effect on >>performance? >> >> > >We use this setup (with 4.x and 5.x as core routers). > >We do this since approx. 1996 (in those days with gated and fbsd 2.x and >without the VLAN stuff), so it's very solid from our point of view. > > > What kind of throughput do you get using FreeBSD and what kind of hardware? Doing a straight FTP transfer from one server to another through a CIsco 3640 seems to cap at about 40 Mbits/second so I was wondering how that compares to a x86 system running FreeBSD. -- Roman Volf Keystreams Internet Solutions volfman@keystreams.com