Fermín Galán Márquez skrev:
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.
Anybody knows any other similar analysis, please?
Best regards,
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Fermín Galán Márquez
CTTC - Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya
Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia, Av. del Canal Olímpic s/n, 08860
Castelldefels, Spain
Room 1.02
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Fax : +34 93 645 29 01
Email address: fermin.galan@xxxxxxx
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This was seen on the mailing list a couple of years ago, doesnt say much
but it shows what could be done.
On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 22:30:10 +0100
Anton Tinchev <atl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> first i wonna thank you for the great work.
> I have few slack boxes with several 3com cards that acts as routers.
> Some of them has 50+ vlans, 100 000+ routing entries, full BGP (zebra) with 10+ peers
> and routes 50-70 mb/s traffic. Everithing is rock solid, few months uptimes.
Sounds pretty impressive, really. I admire such setups.
> I wona to upgrade some of my cards and need advice what to use.
> On 100+mb/s interrups killing my boxes - 20 000+/s (yes, coalescing, i know:))
> What to use? tigon2 or tigon3 for gigabit? (3c985 or 3c996)
None of them! Or at least not tigon3! I've tried to use one (3c996-T), and I experienced
strange system lockups. The board is a dual Tyan Tiger MP with couple of Athlon MP 1600+. It was
just hanging from time to time with completely no output of any kind. Just rock solid lockup. :/
Anyway, I changed to a good old 3c905C and now I don't have any problems. Well, I'm serving at
half of your rate, but anyway. So, I would suggest using HP equipment. At least I've heard that
it works quote well.
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