Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:13:43 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: number of interfaces and performance ? Message-ID: <20010426091343.F18676@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010424145602.05c353a0@marble.sentex.ca>; from mike@sentex.net on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 11:21:17AM -0400 References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010424145602.05c353a0@marble.sentex.ca>
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* Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> [010426 08:27] wrote: > > 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. I remeber there being some sort of issue with large number of interfaces, however I think it was trivial to fix and may have already been. Sorry if this isn't so helpful, but I can't remeber anyone recently popping up and complaining about the perf with lotsa NICs in machine. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org] Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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