[109941] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Gigabit Linux Routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugeniu Patrascu)
Wed Dec 17 12:33:44 2008
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:33:38 +0200
From: Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen@imacandi.net>
To: Chris <chris@ghostbusters.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <c8a7026b0812170711r6cf4e109vc7eb26e7da91e05@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Chris wrote:
>
> Eugeniu: That's very useful. The Intel dual port NICs mentioned aren't any
> good then I presume (please see my comment to David).
Actually it depends on the motherboard chipset. Some chipsets allocate
an interrupt per slot, and when you have lot's a traffic between two
ports on a dual port card the will increase dramatically, but should get
you at 1Gbps, at higer speeds... depends.
It's adviseable to use a 2.6 kernel as the network stack, compared to
2.4, is way better and you can achieve higher speeds.
