[20949] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux Router KIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Fri Oct 30 00:14:25 1998
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 23:55:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu, list@inet-access.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981028150431.17148A-100000@sasami.anime.net>
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > Also, for a long time, Linux had a hard time with lots or routes.
>
> No longer applies. In fact Linux is now faster than BSD up to about
> 60-70,000 routes. BSD is faster at about 200,000. In between its about
> even.
Where/how are you doing simulations with that many routes? Feeding full
routes to a linux 2.0.3x box running gated, I get:
# cat /proc/net/route | wc -l
54677
and that command takes 13s to complete. When dealing with that many
routes on a *nix box, better tools would be nice. On my 3640, I can do a
show ip route blah, and get immediate response. On the linux box above, I
have no such tool. I should fire up a copy of gated 4.x and see how gii
performs, but its kind of a drag not being allowed to use the newer code
on anything but personal testing/development systems.
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