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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:46:11 -0600 From: "randal k" <nanog@data102.com> To: "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@creative.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20080723161740.GK11922@skywalker.creative.net.au> Cc: nanog@merit.edu Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org 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.pdf > > Various 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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