El Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:42:06PM +0200, Evgeni Gechev escribió: > > Some topic-related observations: > AMD Athlon XP1700+ (1466), 4xRealtek8139, 5-6Mbit/s - nearly reaching the limit > of machine capabalities Change the 4 Realtek by 4 REAL nics, as the kernel driver of the realtek cards sais ... "... Realtek redefine the concept of low end hardware with this chipset ..." > P4 2000, 3com905C+BROADCOM BCM5701, 40-50Mbit/s - far better behavior > Same configuration on both, thousands of iptables rules, and on the p4 machine > there are 200-250 concurrent pppoe sessions (none on the athlon) I think is not a matter of the hardware (CPU/Mem I mean), but a matter of having good nics, good switches, and a very good planed and inplemented network struture. If you want good performance, a tunning over the kernel network related parameters would be good too. Best regards -- _ _ // Raúl A. Betancort Santana /> A Dream is an answer to __ \\ // <rabs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> // question that we don't know (oo) \\ // Dimensión Virtual S.L. // how to ask. / \/ \ // \> A Linux Solution Provider </ `V__V' </
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