Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 11:21:17 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: number of interfaces and performance ? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010424145602.05c353a0@marble.sentex.ca>
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I have the need to put together a somewhat largish VLAN router (larger than I have done before) with about 35 interfaces. Has anyone put anything like this together ? The box would be routing about 25-30Mb at peak rate. I recall reading something about LINUX being very inefficient when it comes to multiple interfaces. Does FreeBSD suffer from the same fate ? I also recall someone running into problems with 16 physical interfaces (4 x 4 multiport nics). Not sure how much of that was an hardware resource issue and how much a software resource issue . Will it work OK in theory, or should I spend the $8K on a 3640 ? The largest I have right now is one with 8 active VLANs and it works very well, but nothing over 10 and nothing pushing 30+. I have built the box and it works well enough in the lab, but I dont know of course how it will work in production. ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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