[106304] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software router state of the art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Sat Jul 26 07:05:41 2008
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:05:26 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
In-Reply-To: <87r69hx6zq.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: zzuser@yahoo.com, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Was this with one packet flow, or with millions of them?
I believe it was >1 flow. The guy is using an Ixia; I don't know how
he has it configured.
> Traditionally, software routing performance on hosts systems has been
> optimized for few and rather long flows.
Yup.
And I always ask that question when people claim really high(!) throughput on
software forwarding. It turns out their throughput was single source/single
dest, and/or large packets (so high throughput, but low pps.)
Adrian
