Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 10:18:51 -0700 From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> To: bill@carracing.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a hi-perf router Message-ID: <F10hm8Ua8d9Ee4zadTM00002b08@hotmail.com>
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A P2/400 (about the same as a dual PPro/200 at 100% MP efficiency) that I have used had no problem handling 100Mbit/sec traffic. I was at one point able to get the CPU usage up to around 12% after adding about 60 firewall rules just for testing. Note that the system only had three users at that time, each sharing the bandwidth over a switched network. You may get substantially different results with many users. Also note that I compiled all aplicable binaries with heavily tweaked optimizations, not with the de facto standard of "-O -pipe". Hope this helps. >From: Bill Desjardins <bill@carracing.com> >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: FreeBSD as a hi-perf router >Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 02:53:20 -0400 (EDT) > >Hello, > >I am looking to setup a FreeBSD based router running a bunch of >4 port 100Mbit cards. The machine I have slated for this is a Compaq 2500 >running dual Pentium Pro's (200Mhz/512k). I am planning to use this as a >co-lo router running dummynet for customers on their own network >segments. My question is...is anyone using FreeBSD under these conditions >and what type of performance may I expect out of it? I eventually >plan to get another 100Mbit from another provider and run BGP4 via >GateD. Is this reasonably feasable? I expect bandwidth to easily exceed >40Mbit up to 60Mbit possibly. By then I hope to have saved enough for a >large cisco, but until then I am very cost limited > >As for reliability, the compaq has a raid which I plan to run raid 0/1 for >the best reliability. I have also thought about using pico BSD, but havent >researched it enough to see if it is feasable. > >Suggestions,Comments tips & pointers, greatly appreciated. > >regards, > >Bill > >-- >Bill Desjardins - bill@carracing.com - (USA) 305.205.8644 >Unix/Network Consulting - perl/mod_perl/SQL development >http://www.CarRacing.com - Powered by FreeBSD/mod_perl > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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