[99373] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Going dual-stack, how do apps behave and what to do as an operator (Was: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Wed Sep 19 12:47:41 2007
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:48:00 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Alex Thurlow <alex@blastro.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <46F15172.8080900@blastro.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007, Alex Thurlow wrote:
> >How much traffic can a modern intel board with a core 2 duo handle
> >with $EL_GENERIC_UNIX_OS ?
> The PCI-Express bus tops out at 2.5 Gbps I believe, and they (Vyatta
> router salespeople to be specific) say you should be able to reach
> that. At 850 Mbps, my Intel Core 2 Duo running Quagga/IPtables (with a
> decent number of firewall rules) on Gentoo only hits about 30% CPU
> usage. With that, it sound like you could hit the 2.5Gbps if you had
> the connection.
What pps are you seeing on that?
Adrian
