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From: Ingo Flaschberger <if@xip.at>
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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]
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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