Fermín Galán Márquez wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder about the performance of a Linux box used as router (I guest I'm > not the first :). Althought I know it mainly depends on the hardware, I'm > trying to find some references on the topic or comparations with other > routing solutions (FreeBSD box used as router, Cisco, etc). For example, > http://facweb.cti.depaul.edu/jyu/Publications/Yu-Linux-TSM2004.pdf > (althought is related with Linux-briding more than with Linux-routing) shows > in Figure 14 that with an AMD Duron 1.3GHz 512M RAM a throughput of 90 Mbps > can be achieved. On an AMD Athlon64 3200+ (2 GHz) I was able to saturate 2 PCI-Express gigabit cards (but that was with 1500 byte packets). Never tried more although the box has 6 interfaces capable of gigabit, 4 of them attached via PCI-Express. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
