From owner-freebsd-net Thu Apr 26 8:27:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF54A37B423 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:27:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simoeon.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3QFRhi57244 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 11:27:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010424145602.05c353a0@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 11:21:17 -0400 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa Subject: number of interfaces and performance ? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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