From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 17 09:53:15 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 E1DA416A4B3 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:53:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-234.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E21E43FA3 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:53:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E16E66DBA; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:53:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 12E15B8D; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:53:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:53:13 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Simon Gray Message-ID: <20031017165312.GC4717@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <01e201c39494$06526680$1100a8c0@dtg17> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uXxzq0nDebZQVNAZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01e201c39494$06526680$1100a8c0@dtg17> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd tcp/ip stack X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:53:16 -0000 --uXxzq0nDebZQVNAZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:49:57AM +0100, Simon Gray wrote: > Hi, >=20 > Been reading an article around Sun's new Solaris tcp/ip stack: >=20 > "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" >=20 > "code-named Fire Engine - has 10 gigabit and 100 gigabit Ethernet networks > in mind" > >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/33440.html << >=20 > 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? 4 years ago a team at Duke used FreeBSD with commodity hardware to achieve the then-record of 1.147 Gb/s (http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/trapeze/gigabitip.html). Other performance data on that site indicates it was later raised to about 1.4 Gb/sec. I don't know of more recent performance results, but I'd expect significant gains since then due to hardware improvements. Kris --uXxzq0nDebZQVNAZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/kB54Wry0BWjoQKURAlKsAJ9hxQsapCBxvOIMQe2AUNxp4AcqaACfdCdd DlpO9LBYu/lq1lJ+CVU0hss= =MkdM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uXxzq0nDebZQVNAZ--