From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Weimer Subject: Re: Linux Routing Performance Update Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:50:12 +0100 Message-ID: <87oef8m5nf.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> References: <16887.39598.648724.421160@robur.slu.se> <41FA4498.6020202@aarnet.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Robert Olsson , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Glen Turner In-Reply-To: <41FA4498.6020202@aarnet.edu.au> (Glen Turner's message of "Sat, 29 Jan 2005 00:26:40 +1030") Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org * Glen Turner: >> Finally time for some more testing with a somewhat upgraded equipment. > > Thanks very much for the interesting results. Indeed. > I'm sure other network engineers have experienced software routers where > the pps has dramatically slowed down upon reasonable ACLs and queuing > (Cisco 7500, etc), Cisco 7500 with proper configuration would do quite well in this test, too, even with ACLs. Only if you have more than a few thousand new flows per second, things start to look rather bleak. (Forwarding decisions are performed once per flow on this platform.) > so some results with netfilter and tc running would be appreciated, > as would tests for any packet re-ordering in output flows. I'd also like to see tests with random source/destination combinations, just to keep things in perspective. 8-)