Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 01:23:41 +0300 From: "Niki Denev" <nike_d@cytexbg.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a gigabit router Message-ID: <2e77fc10710031523w35792c4dmf7494572490c10af@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <fe11jn$8rs$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <4703F9C3.2060601@net.utcluj.ro> <fe11jn$8rs$1@sea.gmane.org>
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2007/10/4, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>:
> Cristian KLEIN wrote:
>
> > Can anybody point me what the bottleneck of this configuration is? CPU was
> > mostly idle and PCIe 1x should carry way more. Or is the experiment perhaps
> > fundamentally flawed?
>
> A "generic" problem in your case might be ICMP limiting which is turned
> on in FreeBSD by default. See net.inet.icmp.icmplim sysctl.
>
>
Also ping -f itself does not try to saturate the link to the max. The
manual states :
-f Flood ping. Outputs packets as fast as they come back or one
hundred times per second, whichever is more.
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Niki
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