[106306] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software router state of the art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Sat Jul 26 07:31:29 2008
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:31:14 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Colin Alston <karnaugh@karnaugh.za.net>
In-Reply-To: <488B0679.7040009@karnaugh.za.net>
Cc: zzuser@yahoo.com, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008, Colin Alston wrote:
> >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.)
>
> I assume though that all of this is on x86 platform hardware. How does
> this compare to Linux or FreeBSD running on something else like the
> Cavium Octeon and other 64bit MIPS based processors?
You'll have to ask the people playing with it on that.
Me, I've been looking for some multicore MIPS + fruit for some Squid
related hackery but I've been busy with other things (like, you know,
making Squid-2 be able to be run on multi-core hardware in the first
place..) so it'll have to wait.. :)
Adrian
