Re: [LARTC] Bandwith limitation

["Raúl Alexis Betancort Santana" <rabs@dimension-virtual.com>]

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El Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:42:06PM +0200, Evgeni Gechev escribió:
> 
> Some topic-related observations:
> AMD Athlon XP1700+ (1466), 4xRealtek8139, 5-6Mbit/s - nearly reaching the limit
> of machine capabalities

 Change the 4 Realtek by 4 REAL nics, as the kernel driver of the
realtek cards sais ... "... Realtek redefine the concept of low end
hardware with this chipset ..."

> P4 2000, 3com905C+BROADCOM BCM5701, 40-50Mbit/s - far better behavior
> Same configuration on both, thousands of iptables rules, and on the p4 machine
> there are 200-250 concurrent pppoe sessions (none on the athlon)

 I think is not a matter of the hardware (CPU/Mem I mean), but a matter of having good
nics, good switches, and a very good planed and inplemented network
struture. If you want good performance, a tunning over the kernel
network related parameters would be good too.

Best regards

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