Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 20:14:41 -0400 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: "IBS / Andre Oppermann" <andre@pipeline.ch> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Routing thru a FreeBSD? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19971023201441.00ade850@etinc.com>
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At 12:41 AM 10/24/97 +0200, you wrote: >Tony Li wrote: >-snip- >> Ob FreeBSD: The point here is that at some point, when you need many >> hundreds of thousands of PPS of forwarding, normal processors just >> fail to >> provide the necessary speed. Note that for most situations, this is >> not >> necessary. A heavily hacked FreeBSD system can get around 100Kpps. >> Of >> course at this point, you also run out of PCI bandwidth, so you've >> maxed >> out the rest of the hardware too. Of course these numbers change linearly as Intel cranks out faster processors. Dennis
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