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Date:      Tue, 1 Jul 2008 03:36:04 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Ingo Flaschberger <if@xip.at>
To:        "Support (Rudy)" <crapsh@monkeybrains.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>
Subject:   Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding  performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]
Message-ID:  <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807010334160.19444@filebunker.xip.at>
In-Reply-To: <486986D9.3000607@monkeybrains.net>
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Dear Rudy,

> I used polling in FreeBSD 5.x and it helped a bunch.  I set up a new router 
> with 7.0 and MSI was recommended to me.  (I noticed no difference when moving 
> from polling -> MSI, however, on 5.4 polling seemed to help a lot.  What are 
> people using in 7.0?
> polling or MSI?

if you have a inet-router with gige-uplinks, it is possible that there 
will be (d)dos attacks.
only polling helps you then to keep the router manageable (but dropping 
packets).

Kind regards,
 	Ingo Flaschberger




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