Hi , I performed the routing and bridging tests on 2.4.31 and 2.6.16 on a MIPS(4kc) malta Board , with and without iptables rules. I observed that the routing performance is quite better( 15-20% increase) on 2.6 for shorter packet sizes( 64,128 and 256 bytes) and almost equal to that on 2.4 for larger packet sizes(512, 1024 and 1518 bytes). The bridging performance follows the same pattern as well. Is there something I might have missed..? Is this an observed behavior on 2.6 kernels..? I have included the thoroughput figures for bridging at the bottom of the mail for reference. Please let me know in case any more information is required. Regards, Bharath ----------------------------- 2.4.31 with iptables ----------------------------- 64 2.11 128 3.59 256 6.33 512 10.93 1024 17.49 1280 20.00 1518 22.09 ----------------------------- 2.6.16 with iptables ----------------------------- 64 2.19 128 3.75 256 6.48 512 11.16 1024 17.33 1280 19.83 1518 19.91 - : 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
