[116110] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What is good in modular routers these days?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Tue Jul 21 12:45:44 2009
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:45:31 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: "Petersen, Mark" <MPetersen@gs1us.org>
In-Reply-To: <54B7F7DBCA12D94CA3FE17B68F1461A706671446@LVNJEVS205.UCCORG.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Tue, Jul 21, 2009, Petersen, Mark wrote:
> FreeBSD provides support for 802.11q, bgpd, ospfd, pf(firewall) and
> ALTQ(QOS) but since I haven't tested it I have no idea what kind of real
> world performance you can get with all these features in use.
>
> This is one group trying to pony up at least with support of many major
> vendors.
The main current funding source for work being committed back to FreeBSD's
10GE performance has a very big focus on server performance, not forwarding
performance. Hence the flow cache, which benefits TCP stream performance.
Adrian
