From owner-freebsd-net Thu Aug 22 3:35:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D8837B400 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 03:35:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iguana.icir.org (iguana.icir.org [192.150.187.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E35A43E7B for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 03:35:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rizzo@iguana.icir.org) Received: from iguana.icir.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by iguana.icir.org (8.12.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g7MAZaIb066345; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 03:35:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rizzo@iguana.icir.org) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by iguana.icir.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g7MAZaJ5066344; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 03:35:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rizzo) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 03:35:36 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo To: Gabriel Rocha Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw on gigabit ethernet Message-ID: <20020822033536.A66166@iguana.icir.org> References: <20020822054934.A20802@seul.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020822054934.A20802@seul.org>; from gabe@seul.org on Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 05:49:34AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org with "em" cards and a 1GHz P3 and ipfw2 and recent fixes (m_getcl()) i had a throughput of ~260kpps with a single accept rule, of course degrading as the ruleset size increases (i think around 230kpps with 10 rules but i could be mistaken). The CPU is a bottleneck there, though i do not know how fast CPUs you can get on systems with 64-bit PCI slots. I had good experience with the "em" cards and driver. cheers luigi On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 05:49:34AM -0400, Gabriel Rocha wrote: > Does anyone out there do ipfw on gigabit ethernet? What kind of > throughput can I expect with something like that? What are suggested > gigabit cards to use right now with fbsd? I realize these are relatively > vague questons, but I am looking for as much info as possible on this > one. Looking at proprietary solutions has led me to the sad conclusion > that there is no way we can afford those and alternative solutions must > be found. I Appreciate any replies. Thanks. --Gabe > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message