[16652] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Core router bakeoff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Fri May 8 04:01:31 1998
To: perry@piermont.com
cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Tony Li <tli@juniper.net>
Date: 08 May 1998 00:51:44 -0700
In-Reply-To: perry@piermont.com's message of 7 May 98 21:24:37 GMT
perry@piermont.com (Perry E. Metzger) writes:
> Yeah, but you'll have trouble getting decent T3 cards for it. Its true
> that 100Mbps ethernet should be fine.
SDL makes decent (tho not perfect) T3 cards for PCs.
> BTW, NetBSD with the recent flow cache mods can handle at least
> 150,000 packets per second. We haven't seen what the actual upper
> limit is, but that number doesn't seem to be eating a lot of CPU.
Interesting. Have you done any scalability testing? Per-flow state has
been shown to scale poorly in Internet backbones.
Tony
