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To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
cc: Christopher Sedore <cmsedore@mailbox.syr.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Router statistics 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 Apr 1997 14:51:00 EDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 13:28:05 -0700
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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