From owner-freebsd-net Thu Apr 26 14:54:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A93637B422 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:54:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f3QLsCf48196; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:54:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (fcage [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.3/8.11.2av) with ESMTP id f3QLs7L48188; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:54:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20010426175244.02fc8668@192.168.0.12> X-Sender: mdtancsa@192.168.0.12 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:54:06 -0400 To: "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: number of interfaces and performance ? Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <15080.36064.716054.787473@vbook.express.ru> References: <20010426091343.F18676@fw.wintelcom.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20010424145602.05c353a0@marble.sentex.ca> <20010426091343.F18676@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 01:02 AM 4/27/2001 +0400, Vladimir B. Grebenschikov wrote: >I have machine vith 18 running interfaces, most of them VLAN >interfaces, but there are some LAN and WAN. It successful transfer >about 60-80Mbit/s (~90 in peak). Most of traffic goes throug Intel >EtherExpress ethernet NICs. Thanks for the data point. Have you ever tried increasing the interface count above 18 to say 33 ? >For VLANs I use patch to allow passing IP packets 1500byte size. Yes, I use that one as well. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administration, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message