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Re: Going dual-stack, how do apps behave and what to do as an operator (Was: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?)


From: Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:48:00 +0800


On Wed, Sep 19, 2007, Alex Thurlow wrote:

How much traffic can a modern intel board with a core 2 duo handle
with $EL_GENERIC_UNIX_OS ?

The PCI-Express bus tops out at 2.5 Gbps I believe, and they (Vyatta 
router salespeople to be specific) say you should be able to reach 
that.  At 850 Mbps, my Intel Core 2 Duo running Quagga/IPtables (with a 
decent number of firewall rules) on Gentoo only hits about 30% CPU 
usage.  With that, it sound like you could hit the 2.5Gbps if you had 
the connection.

What pps are you seeing on that?



Adrian


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