Damjan wrote: >>> 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. Hm. How do you arrive at that result? I get twice the numbers. nic a: 1 gbit in -> nic b: 1 gbit out nic b: 1 gbit in -> nic a: 1 gbit out total 2 gbit 2 gbit /(1500*8 bit/frame) ~ 160k packets/s Please note that I did not test with smaller frame sizes, so 1Mp/s may be possible (I'll test that if I have some spare time). Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
