Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:39:31 -0700 From: Roman Volf <volfman@keystreams.com> To: pi@LF.net Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD, quagga (BGP) and 2950 VLANs Message-ID: <432F3013.7090001@keystreams.com> In-Reply-To: <20050919205757.GI62233@complx.LF.net> References: <432EC4FF.4030706@lvdx.com> <20050919205757.GI62233@complx.LF.net>
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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
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