Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:53:13 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Simon Gray <simong@desktop-guardian.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd tcp/ip stack Message-ID: <20031017165312.GC4717@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <01e201c39494$06526680$1100a8c0@dtg17> References: <01e201c39494$06526680$1100a8c0@dtg17>
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--uXxzq0nDebZQVNAZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:49:57AM +0100, Simon Gray wrote: > Hi, >=20 > Been reading an article around Sun's new Solaris tcp/ip stack: >=20 > "Sun Microsystems' new Software Express program is alive and kicking with > the company delivering a rewritten TCP/IP stack for Solaris that is meant= to > prepare customers for faster networking technology" >=20 > "code-named Fire Engine - has 10 gigabit and 100 gigabit Ethernet networks > in mind" > >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/33440.html << >=20 > Just out of curiosity whets the maximum bandwidth/throughput the freebsd > tcp/ip stack can handle or is designed to handle? (I know it'll depend on > many factors such as firewalling (if enabled) and of course network > cards/drivers, system load etc...) but as a basic figure? 4 years ago a team at Duke used FreeBSD with commodity hardware to achieve the then-record of 1.147 Gb/s (http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/trapeze/gigabitip.html). Other performance data on that site indicates it was later raised to about 1.4 Gb/sec. I don't know of more recent performance results, but I'd expect significant gains since then due to hardware improvements. Kris --uXxzq0nDebZQVNAZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/kB54Wry0BWjoQKURAlKsAJ9hxQsapCBxvOIMQe2AUNxp4AcqaACfdCdd DlpO9LBYu/lq1lJ+CVU0hss= =MkdM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uXxzq0nDebZQVNAZ--
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