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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 17:12:49 -0400
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From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Subject: Re: Router statistics 
Cc: Christopher Sedore <cmsedore@mailbox.syr.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org,
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At 01:28 PM 4/24/97 -0700, David Greenman wrote:
>>At 12:17 PM 4/24/97 -0400, Christopher Sedore wrote:
>>>
>>>Every now and then someone asks about using FreeBSD as a router/firewall. 
>>>I thought I'd post these stats for our router, a P90 with two DEC PCI
>>>ethernet cards (10mbit), and running ipfw for filtering:
>>>
>>>$ netstat -I de1
>>>Name  Mtu   Network       Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs
Coll
>>>de1   1500  <Link>      00.00.f8.01.29.48 563695622    59 575254062  1500
>>1378263754
>>>de1   1500  128.230.105/2 rt              563695622    59 575254062  1500
>>1378263754
>>>$ uptime
>>>11:18AM  up 106 days, 20:35, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>>>$ uname -a
>>>FreeBSD rt.maxwell.syr.edu 2.2-961014-SNAP FreeBSD 2.2-961014-SNAP #0: Thu
>>Jan  2
>>>13:08:44  1997     cmsedore@rt.maxwell.syr.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/RT i386
>>>
>>>Now, I realize that the packet numbers do not appear to be that
>>>impressive.  This is because we rolled the counters so you need to add
>>>2^32 to each count :). Over this roughly 107 day period, we averaged about
>>>1100 packets/second.
>>
>>
>>Has anyone done any load testing on 2.2.x lately (perhaps someone 
>>with a 100Mbs ethernet....I'd like to get some numbers for some 
>>marketing literature regarding OS throughout capability...the goal
>>being to convice the world that a FreeBSD box with 16 T1 lines
>>is feasible. This would require 10-15,000 pps if all of the lines
>>were rather busy.
>
>   Wcarchive does an average of 3500 pps with a peak of around 5000 pps. The
>average data rate is around 20-25Mbps, with the machine around 50% idle. This
>is using the Intel PCI Pro/100B...reduce the idle time to about 30% if you're
>using a DEC/de card.

Of importance to this stat....what is the machine CPU and speed? A
Pentium pro 200Mhz?



Dennis