Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Al Boldi wrote: > > Is there a reason why bridging in linux is not faster than routing? > > The main overhead seem to be elsewhere, mainly hardware related (interrupt > handling, NIC driver, FSB bandwidth, PCI bandwidth and latency). How could this be improved? Or, does this imply an underlying (design) problem? > For best bridge performance make sure your kernel is NOT built with > support for bridge firewalling. The bridge firewalling support adds a fair > bit of overhead to bridgeing even if not used. Firewalling on a bridge? Does this mean that the bridge does not operate on the physical level of the dev, or is it ARP-FW? Also, ifconfig eth0 up does not add the dev in /proc/../ipv4/conf, but ifconfig eth0 0 does?! Thanks! -- Al - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
