Date: 23 Oct 1997 20:12:35 -0700 From: Tony Li <tli@juniper.net> To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Routing thru a FreeBSD? Message-ID: <82hga7j1lo.fsf@chimp.juniper.net> In-Reply-To: dennis@etinc.com's message of 24 Oct 97 00:14:41 GMT References: <3.0.32.19971023201441.00ade850@etinc.com>
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dennis@etinc.com (dennis) writes: > >> 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. That's not at all clear. Again, exhausting the PCI bandwidth is very much an issue that's not going to go away with a faster CPU. Tony
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