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Re: The Making of a Router
From: Ray Soucy <rps () maine edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 20:29:35 -0500
Chipsets and drivers matter a lot in the 1G+ range. I've had pretty good luck with the Intel stuff because they offload a lot in hardware and make open drivers available to the community. On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Olivier Cochard-Labbé <olivier () cochard me>wrote:
Le 26 déc. 2013 22:02, "Nick Cameo" <symack () gmail com> a écrit :Any benchmarks of freebsd vs openbsd vs present day linux kern?Hi, Here are my own benchs using smallest packet size (sorry no Linux): http://dev.bsdrp.net/benchs/BSD.network.performance.TenGig.png My conclusion: building a line-rate gigabit router (or a few rules ipfw firewall) is possible on commodity server without problem with FreeBSD. Building a 10gigabit router (this mean routing about 14Mpps) will be more complex in present day. Note: The packet generator used was the high-perf netmap pkg-gen, allowing me to generate about 13Mpps on this same hardware (under FreeBSD), but I'm not aware of forwarding tools that use netmap: There are only packet generator and capture tools available.
-- Ray Patrick Soucy Network Engineer University of Maine System T: 207-561-3526 F: 207-561-3531 MaineREN, Maine's Research and Education Network www.maineren.net
Current thread:
- Re: The Making of a Router, (continued)
- Re: The Making of a Router Alessandro Ratti (Dec 26)
- Re: The Making of a Router Andrew D Kirch (Dec 26)
- Re: The Making of a Router Seth Mattinen (Dec 26)
- Re: The Making of a Router Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 26)
- Re: The Making of a Router shawn wilson (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Andrew D Kirch (Dec 26)
- Re: The Making of a Router Justin M. Streiner (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router William Waites (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Justin M. Streiner (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Alessandro Ratti (Dec 26)
- Re: The Making of a Router Olivier Cochard-Labbé (Dec 26)
- Re: The Making of a Router Ray Soucy (Dec 26)
- Re: The Making of a Router Nick Cameo (Dec 26)
- Re: The Making of a Router Eugeniu Patrascu (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Baldur Norddahl (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Jon Sands (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Baldur Norddahl (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Eugeniu Patrascu (Dec 27)
- Re: The Making of a Router Faisal Imtiaz (Dec 27)