[106128] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software router state of the art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Marlatt)
Wed Jul 23 12:26:30 2008
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From: Chris Marlatt <cmarlatt@rxsec.com>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
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Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
> 1 mil pps has been broken that way, but it uses lots of cores to get there.
> (8, I think?)
>
http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/net/2008-06/msg00364.html
has all the details. It's rather long thread but 1mpps was achieved on a
single cpu IIRC (the server had multiple cpus but only one being used
for forwarding). Firewall rules slowed it down quite a bit but theres
also some work out there being done to minimize this.
Regards,
Chris
