From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ra=FAl?= Alexis Betancort Santana Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:03:11 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Bandwith limitation MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1" Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: To: lartc@vger.kernel.org --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable El Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:42:06PM +0200, Evgeni Gechev escribi=F3: >=20 > 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 ma= chine > 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 --=20 _ _ = =20 // Ra=FAl A. Betancort Santana /> A Dream is an answer to __ \\= =20 // // question that we don't know (oo) \\ = =20 // Dimensi=F3n Virtual S.L. // how to ask. / \/ \ /= / =20 \> A Linux Solution Provider