Damjan wrote: >>> 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). I've done some benchmarks on a Sunfire x2100 with 2 port PCI Express ethernet cards. It switches 800KPPS for 64B packets. Regards Mohan _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
