From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 24 09:24:26 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9334F2B4; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:24:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from forward9l.mail.yandex.net (forward9l.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:1819::9]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "forwards.mail.yandex.net", Issuer "Certum Level IV CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4B8AD2966; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:24:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp18.mail.yandex.net (smtp18.mail.yandex.net [95.108.252.18]) by forward9l.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id CEC62E60DA6; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:24:14 +0400 (MSK) Received: from smtp18.mail.yandex.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp18.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 5C5F618A0141; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:24:14 +0400 (MSK) Received: from 84.201.164.118-vpn.dhcp.yndx.net (84.201.164.118-vpn.dhcp.yndx.net [84.201.164.118]) by smtp18.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id qvfdzBKTH2-OEeqfbJO; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:24:14 +0400 (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client certificate not present) X-Yandex-Uniq: 0a5c922e-ed72-45fa-b924-76f322b676d6 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.ru; s=mail; t=1406193854; bh=d0Rto8DAfEAHge4qI6PRo1ATtA2rYfAen3Mj+vABqoo=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject: References:In-Reply-To:X-Enigmail-Version:Content-Type: Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=LfYxtgpOrEeuSKRW5h/aH3r0cU5kBLTE4+Q+PkoflQz+gsZMBniDRjMWpEr07COjO R8xB3xhGcxHvN7ylxD/55fUDfWb1CMUsedLvLE04W7bY8FF10gZTglkUGtshUUetXB Yd//tWz2StgEVnOrsYgy+zPOy8DOwYdnbxvfPRJY= Authentication-Results: smtp18.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.ru Message-ID: <53D0D0B2.6080600@yandex.ru> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:24:02 +0400 From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Jasen , FreeBSD Net , "Alexander V. Chernikov" Subject: Re: fastforward/routing: a 3 million packet-per-second system? References: <53CE80DD.9090109@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53CE80DD.9090109@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:24:26 -0000 On 22.07.2014 19:18, John Jasen wrote: > Feedback and/or tips and tricks more than welcome. > > Outstanding questions: > > Would increasing the number of processor cores help? AFAIR, increasing the number of cores will lead to worse results. With patched and tuned FreeBSD we able to route (with fastforwarding) about 7 Mpps IPv4 and 2.5Mpps IPv6. But the stock system is far from even half of this results. -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov