[106183] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Software router state of the art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Sanderson)
Thu Jul 24 08:26:13 2008
From: Tim Sanderson <tims@donet.com>
To: Nanog Mailing list <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:25:09 -0400
In-Reply-To: <daf895880807231046i7a8cadf7l91d9b2bbffd67ed9@mail.gmail.com>
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Is anyone using Vyatta for routing? I sure would like to know about any exp=
erience 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> wro=
te:
> 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 th=
e
> Intel gig/10ge stuff.
>
> 1 mil pps has been broken that way, but it uses lots of cores to get ther=
e.
> (8, I think?)
>
> Linux apparently is/has headed down this path.
