From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Dec 11 4:24:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from workhorse.iMach.com (workhorse.iMach.com [206.127.77.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B23E37B416 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 04:24:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (forrestc@localhost) by workhorse.iMach.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA14689; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 05:17:29 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 05:17:28 -0700 (MST) From: "Forrest W. Christian" To: "Tolpanov, Dmitry" Cc: Kal Torak , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Router based on FreeBSD. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What is the PING TIME Across this router? I too am skeptical. I can push 4MB/s through a 486/66 box with ISA cards on occasion if everything is right. On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Tolpanov, Dmitry wrote: > Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:57:29 +0700 > From: "Tolpanov, Dmitry" > To: Kal Torak > Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: Router based on FreeBSD. > > I'm 99 % sure that the bottleneck is router. > As for other hardware, router connected to 3Com 3300 XM which is devided > on VLANs. > The most loading on two 100 Mb interfaces (backbone interfaces). Network > becomes slow when their loading 4 MB/s on each other (about 5500 > interrupts on each, is not this very high), other interfaces have stable > loading and CPU loading is about 50-30 % idle. > > As for routing table: > root[xxx]:/etc/> netstat -rn | wc -l > 638 > > > Tolpanov, Dmitry wrote: > > > > > > > > >I've got a very complex problem so every advice is appreciated. > > >I've got a router on 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD. It's got hardware > > (in short): > > >- Intel Pentium III 500 MHz > > >- NIC 3Com 10/100 in 100baseTX > > >- NIC 3Com 10/100 in 100baseTX > > >- NIC 3Com 10/100 in 100baseTX > > >- NIC 3Com 900 Combo 10baseT/UTP > > >- NIC 3Com 900 Combo 10baseT/UTP > > > > > >Sometimes through this router network works slowly and it is natural > > >right thing. Therefore we are going to split router on two. > > > > > > Hmmm when you say slow, how slow are you talking??? And what kind > > of load does this router get? I mean its obviously got at least 5 > > subnets or more, but what kind of loads?? > > > > When its going slowly what kind of ping times do you get accross it?? > > > > Also are you sure its the router thats the bottle neck here? What kind > > of network is it attached to? Hubs, Switches, what brands are they?? > > > > The reason I ask is because a P3 500 is a lot faster than most of the > > processors you would find in hardware routers, I dont see how it could > > be noticably slow.. But I dont really know how much traffic > > your getting... > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Innovation Machine Ltd. P.O. Box 5749 http://www.imach.com/ Helena, MT 59604 Home of PacketFlux Technogies and BackupDNS.com (406)-442-6648 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect your personal freedoms - visit http://www.lp.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message