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Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eduardo Schoedler)
Mon May 20 14:51:37 2013
In-Reply-To: <2d2fe94d32c4536cc2033699c740119e@jonesy.com.au>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 15:51:22 -0300
From: Eduardo Schoedler <listas@esds.com.br>
To: Andrew Jones <aj@jonesy.com.au>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
2013/5/19 Andrew Jones <aj@jonesy.com.au>
> As for migration to another OS, I find FreeBSD better as a matter of
>> network performance. The last time I checked OpenBSD was either
>> lacking or was in the early stages of multiple cores support.
>>
>
> If you do decide to go the FreeBSD route (you can run openbgpd on FreeBSD
> if you like), check out the POLLING option on ethernet NICs, it cuts down
> on the number of interrupts and can increase performance, particularly when
> dealing with smaller packets.
>
Polling on FreeBSD in modern NICs is discouraged.
--
Eduardo Schoedler
