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RE: Software router state of the art
From: Tim Sanderson <tims () donet com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:25:09 -0400
Is anyone using Vyatta for routing? I sure would like to know about any experience with it in production. http://www.vyatta.com/ -- Tim Sanderson, network administrator tims () donet com -----Original Message----- From: randal k [mailto:nanog () data102 com] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 1:46 PM To: Adrian Chadd Cc: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: Software router state of the art That is a very interesting paper. Seriously, 7mpps with an off-the-shelf Dell 2950? Even if it were -half- that throughput, for a pure ethernet forwarding solution that is incredible. Shoot, buy a handful of them as hot spares and still save a bundle. Highly recommended reading, even if (like me) you're anti-commodity routing. Cheers, Randal On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008, Charles Wyble wrote:This might be of interest: http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/tmp/vrouter-perf.pdfVarious FreeBSD related guys are working on parallelising the forwarding layer enough to use the multiple tx/rx queues in some chipsets such as the Intel gig/10ge stuff. 1 mil pps has been broken that way, but it uses lots of cores to get there. (8, I think?) Linux apparently is/has headed down this path.
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- Software router state of the art Zed Usser (Jul 23)
- Re: Software router state of the art Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 23)
- Re: Software router state of the art Charles Wyble (Jul 23)
- Re: Software router state of the art Adrian Chadd (Jul 23)
- Re: Software router state of the art Chris Marlatt (Jul 23)
- Re: Software router state of the art Adrian Chadd (Jul 23)
- Re: Software router state of the art randal k (Jul 23)
- RE: Software router state of the art Tim Sanderson (Jul 24)
- Re: Software router state of the art Justin Sharp (Jul 25)
- Re: Software router state of the art Joe Greco (Jul 25)
- Re: Software router state of the art Sargun Dhillon (Jul 25)
- Re: Software router state of the art Joe Greco (Jul 25)
- Re: Software router state of the art Charles Wyble (Jul 23)
- Re: Software router state of the art Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 23)
- Re: Software router state of the art Adam Armstrong (Jul 23)
- Re: Software router state of the art Chris Adams (Jul 23)
- Re: Software router state of the art Jeffrey Ollie (Jul 23)
- Re: Software router state of the art Florian Weimer (Jul 26)
- Re: Software router state of the art Adrian Chadd (Jul 26)
- Re: Software router state of the art Colin Alston (Jul 26)