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Date:      Thu, 24 Apr 1997 14:51:00 -0400
From:      dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        Christopher Sedore <cmsedore@mailbox.syr.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Router statistics
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19970424145057.00b74d90@etinc.com>

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At 12:17 PM 4/24/97 -0400, Christopher Sedore wrote:
>
>Every now and then someone asks about using FreeBSD as a router/firewall. 
>I thought I'd post these stats for our router, a P90 with two DEC PCI
>ethernet cards (10mbit), and running ipfw for filtering:
>
>$ netstat -I de1
>Name  Mtu   Network       Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs Coll
>de1   1500  <Link>      00.00.f8.01.29.48 563695622    59 575254062  1500
1378263754
>de1   1500  128.230.105/2 rt              563695622    59 575254062  1500
1378263754
>$ uptime
>11:18AM  up 106 days, 20:35, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>$ uname -a
>FreeBSD rt.maxwell.syr.edu 2.2-961014-SNAP FreeBSD 2.2-961014-SNAP #0: Thu
Jan  2
>13:08:44  1997     cmsedore@rt.maxwell.syr.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/RT i386
>
>Now, I realize that the packet numbers do not appear to be that
>impressive.  This is because we rolled the counters so you need to add
>2^32 to each count :). Over this roughly 107 day period, we averaged about
>1100 packets/second.


Has anyone done any load testing on 2.2.x lately (perhaps someone 
with a 100Mbs ethernet....I'd like to get some numbers for some 
marketing literature regarding OS throughout capability...the goal
being to convice the world that a FreeBSD box with 16 T1 lines
is feasible. This would require 10-15,000 pps if all of the lines
were rather busy.

Dennis



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