From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] Linux router performance
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 23:24:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <447E25B0.6030104@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004e01c684dc$3dfc3c10$303d5854@cttc.es>
Fermín Galán Márquez wrote:
> 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.
On an AMD Athlon64 3200+ (2 GHz) I was able to saturate 2 PCI-Express
gigabit cards (but that was with 1500 byte packets). Never tried more
although the box has 6 interfaces capable of gigabit, 4 of them attached
via PCI-Express.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-31 23:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-31 18:01 [LARTC] Linux router performance Fermín Galán Márquez
2006-05-31 20:27 ` Andreas John
2006-05-31 23:24 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [this message]
2006-06-01 0:34 ` Damjan
2006-06-01 0:44 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2006-06-01 1:59 ` Alexander Samad
2006-06-01 2:03 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2006-06-01 2:21 ` Alexander Samad
2006-06-01 4:52 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2006-06-01 8:46 ` Andrew Lyon
2006-06-01 11:23 ` Ronny Aasen
2006-06-01 11:46 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2006-06-01 20:33 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2006-06-10 6:45 ` S Mohan
2006-06-16 7:52 ` Tomas Bonnedahl
2006-06-16 8:23 ` [LARTC] Linux router performance (fwd) Jesper Dangaard Brouer
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