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Subject: Re: RFC: FreeBSD I/OAT driver
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At 04:41 PM 8/30/2006, Prafulla Deuskar wrote:

>Dual core Woodcrest
>Bensley Chipset
>Netperf Receive Test - 64k IO size
>6.1-RELEASE SMP Kernel
>MTU 1500 bytes
>
>Num Ports  Thr(Native) Thr(I/OAT) CPU (Native) CPU (I/OAT)
>            (Mbps)      (Mbps)     (%)          (%)
>    1       943         943        14           11
>    2      1886        1886        46           22
>    4      1945        2531        84           54

Hi, have you tried it with something like 
/usr/src/tools/tools/netrate ?  I am interested in what it can do as 
a decent 200-500Mb router / firewall with small packets

         ---Mike