Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 13:28:05 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: Christopher Sedore <cmsedore@mailbox.syr.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Router statistics Message-ID: <199704242028.NAA10791@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Apr 1997 14:51:00 EDT." <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. Wcarchive does an average of 3500 pps with a peak of around 5000 pps. The average data rate is around 20-25Mbps, with the machine around 50% idle. This is using the Intel PCI Pro/100B...reduce the idle time to about 30% if you're using a DEC/de card. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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