From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 17 02:51:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5019A16A4B3 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 02:51:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ptb-mailc04.plus.net (ptb-mailc04.plus.net [212.159.14.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8E9643F3F for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 02:51:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simong@desktop-guardian.com) Received: from [81.174.227.186] (helo=desktop-guardian.com) by ptb-mailc04.plus.net with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 1AARGQ-000Pvc-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:51:19 +0000 Received: (qmail 35360 invoked by uid 1006); 17 Oct 2003 09:53:06 -0000 Received: from simong@desktop-guardian.com by dtg25 by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (clamscan: 0.54. spamassassin: 2.55. Clear:. Processed in 3.231678 secs); 17 Oct 2003 09:53:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dtg17) (192.168.0.17) by 192.168.0.25 with SMTP; 17 Oct 2003 09:53:02 -0000 Message-ID: <01e201c39494$06526680$1100a8c0@dtg17> From: "Simon Gray" To: Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:49:57 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: freebsd tcp/ip stack X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Simon Gray List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:51:21 -0000 Hi, Been reading an article around Sun's new Solaris tcp/ip stack: "Sun Microsystems' new Software Express program is alive and kicking with the company delivering a rewritten TCP/IP stack for Solaris that is meant to prepare customers for faster networking technology" "code-named Fire Engine - has 10 gigabit and 100 gigabit Ethernet networks in mind" >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/33440.html << Just out of curiosity whets the maximum bandwidth/throughput the freebsd tcp/ip stack can handle or is designed to handle? (I know it'll depend on many factors such as firewalling (if enabled) and of course network cards/drivers, system load etc...) but as a basic figure? ``FreeBSD ... provides what is probably the most robust and capable TCP/IP stack in existence ...'' ---Michael O'Brien, SunExpert August 1996 volume 7 number 8. I've read in many places about freebsd's stack being advanced, but haven't seen many (if any) benchmarks to prove that freebsd stack is better than say the windows, linux or indeed other bsd os' stacks? Cheers, Simon