> > 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. But that's _only_ 83333 packets/s isn't it. -- damjan | дамјан This is my jabber ID --> damjan@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- not my mail address, it's a Jabber ID --^ :) _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
