Alexander Samad wrote: > On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:44:57AM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: >> 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). > > what if you test inbound and outbound at the same time - the cards > should be capable of full duplex ? I tested 1 gbit in and 1 gbit out per nic at the same time. That's how I arrived at my results. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
