From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 11 06:33:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C29A816A41F for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:33:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alan@uunet.co.za) Received: from mx01.uunet.co.za (mx01.uunet.co.za [196.31.48.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30A4443D45 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:33:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alan@uunet.co.za) Received: from [196.30.158.7] (helo=pixproxy.so.jnb6.za.uu.net) by mx01.uunet.co.za with esmtp (Exim 4.50 (FreeBSD)) id 1EwZXf-000PRj-6P; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:33:07 +0200 Received: from lap-alank.staff.uunet.co.za (nop684.nop.jnb6.za.uu.net [196.31.217.84]) by pixproxy.so.jnb6.za.uu.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C11586D; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:33:06 +0200 (SAST) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:33:04 +0200 (South Africa Standard Time) From: Alan Kemp To: ann kok In-Reply-To: <20060111031613.42819.qmail@web53312.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20060111031613.42819.qmail@web53312.mail.yahoo.com> X-X-Sender: akemp@hill.noc.uunet.co.za MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanner: Scanned By Clam AntiVirus Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd router X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:33:09 -0000 On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, ann kok wrote: > Hi all > > I think this group might be correct to ask the > performance of freebsd as router > > I have run freebsd 4.11 as router for 3 years. I like > freebsd because it is more stable and its security. > Recently, the bandwidth grows to stop about 383M in > mrtg graph and have packet loss when it reaches to > 370M > > I am trying to use freebsd 6.0. Could you help how to > tune the freebsd to have high network throughput? I > test the throughput by ipref software. the max is > about 390M > > I configure polling, loader.conf and use the Intel(R) > Pentium 3.0 Hz, intel Giga em0, sata drive with 2G > memory Hey, Take a look at this site, it might help. http://silverwraith.com/papers/freebsd-tuning.php cheers -- Alan Kemp Development / Network Systems MCI