Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 03:36:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Ingo Flaschberger <if@xip.at> To: "Support (Rudy)" <crapsh@monkeybrains.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> Subject: Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp] Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807010334160.19444@filebunker.xip.at> In-Reply-To: <486986D9.3000607@monkeybrains.net> References: <4867420D.7090406@gtcomm.net> <200806301944.m5UJifJD081781@lava.sentex.ca> <20080701004346.GA3898@stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au> <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807010257570.19444@filebunker.xip.at> <20080701010716.GF3898@stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au> <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807010308320.19444@filebunker.xip.at> <486986D9.3000607@monkeybrains.net>
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Dear Rudy, > I used polling in FreeBSD 5.x and it helped a bunch. I set up a new router > with 7.0 and MSI was recommended to me. (I noticed no difference when moving > from polling -> MSI, however, on 5.4 polling seemed to help a lot. What are > people using in 7.0? > polling or MSI? if you have a inet-router with gige-uplinks, it is possible that there will be (d)dos attacks. only polling helps you then to keep the router manageable (but dropping packets). Kind regards, Ingo Flaschberger
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