Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:13:25 -0400 From: Chris Marlatt <cmarlatt@rxsec.com> To: Bart Van Kerckhove <bart@it-ss.be>, FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp] Message-ID: <48703855.2040503@rxsec.com> In-Reply-To: <2d3001c8def1$f4309b90$020b000a@bartwrkstxp> References: <4867420D.7090406@gtcomm.net> <48699960.9070100@gtcomm.net><ea7b9c170806302005n2a66f592h2127f87a0ba2c6d2@mail.gmail.com><20080701033117.GH83626@cdnetworks.co.kr><ea7b9c170806302050p2a3a5480t29923a4ac2d7c852@mail.gmail.com><4869ACFC.5020205@gtcomm.net> <4869B025.9080006@gtcomm.net><486A7E45.3030902@gtcomm.net> <486A8F24.5010000@gtcomm.net><486A9A0E.6060308@elischer.org> <486B41D5.3060609@gtcomm.net><alpine.LFD.1.10.0807021052041.557@filebunker.xip.at><486B4F11.6040906@gtcomm.net><alpine.LFD.1.10.0807021155280.557@filebunker.xip.at><486BC7F5.5070604@gtcomm.net><20080703160540.W6369@delplex.bde.org><486C7F93.7010308@gtcomm.net><20080703195521.O6973@delplex.bde.org><486D35A0.4000302@gtcomm.net><alpine.LFD.1.10.0807041106591.19613@filebunker.xip.at><486DF1A3.9000409@gtcomm.net><alpine.LFD.1.10.0807041303490.20760@filebunker.xip.at><486E65E6.3060301@gtcomm.net> <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807052356130.2145@filebunker.xip.at> <2d3001c8def1$f4309b90$020b000a@bartwrkstxp>
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Bart Van Kerckhove wrote: > The netfpga site seems more or less dead - is this project still alive? > It does look like a very interesting idea, even though it's currently quite > linux-centric (and according to docs doesn't have VLAN nor ip6 support, the > former being quite a dealbreaker) > Just last Thursday they made another release so it certainly doesn't look dead. I've been following the project for awhile now to see where it's going to go. The lack of FreeBSD support isn't great but I doubt it's going to happen until someone steps up and makes it so. The same is likely true for VLAN support. So far it's primarily been a proof of concept from what I can tell and could be molded into any number of different applications with the appropriate support. Considering all high performance routing platforms separate the management and routing/switching into two (or more) different hardware sections it wouldn't surprise me at all to see this as the only real option to get some serious routing and firewalling performance out of i386/amd64 type servers. Throwing faster and faster cpus at it is only going to get you so far (re: opteron 2212 vs 2222). Even so, 1.1Mpps is a considerable rate. Regards, Chris
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