[20978] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux Router KIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Fri Oct 30 16:05:21 1998
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:14:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
Reply-To: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu, list@inet-access.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.981029234806.15295F-100000@tarkin.fdt.net>
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Jon Lewis wrote:
> 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?
These are just numbers reported by Alan Cox and Alexey Kuznetsov.
> 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.
Well thats great for benchmarking procfs B)
I wonder how long 'netstat -rn' takes on *BSD with 54k routes.
-Dan
