Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 17:12:49 -0400 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: dg@root.com Cc: Christopher Sedore <cmsedore@mailbox.syr.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Router statistics Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970425171236.00af5bb0@etinc.com>
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At 01:28 PM 4/24/97 -0700, David Greenman wrote: >>At 12:17 PM 4/24/97 -0400, Christopher Sedore wrote: >>> >>>Every now and then someone asks about using FreeBSD as a router/firewall. >>>I thought I'd post these stats for our router, a P90 with two DEC PCI >>>ethernet cards (10mbit), and running ipfw for filtering: >>> >>>$ netstat -I de1 >>>Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll >>>de1 1500 <Link> 00.00.f8.01.29.48 563695622 59 575254062 1500 >>1378263754 >>>de1 1500 128.230.105/2 rt 563695622 59 575254062 1500 >>1378263754 >>>$ uptime >>>11:18AM up 106 days, 20:35, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 >>>$ uname -a >>>FreeBSD rt.maxwell.syr.edu 2.2-961014-SNAP FreeBSD 2.2-961014-SNAP #0: Thu >>Jan 2 >>>13:08:44 1997 cmsedore@rt.maxwell.syr.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/RT i386 >>> >>>Now, I realize that the packet numbers do not appear to be that >>>impressive. This is because we rolled the counters so you need to add >>>2^32 to each count :). Over this roughly 107 day period, we averaged about >>>1100 packets/second. >> >> >>Has anyone done any load testing on 2.2.x lately (perhaps someone >>with a 100Mbs ethernet....I'd like to get some numbers for some >>marketing literature regarding OS throughout capability...the goal >>being to convice the world that a FreeBSD box with 16 T1 lines >>is feasible. This would require 10-15,000 pps if all of the lines >>were rather busy. > > Wcarchive does an average of 3500 pps with a peak of around 5000 pps. The >average data rate is around 20-25Mbps, with the machine around 50% idle. This >is using the Intel PCI Pro/100B...reduce the idle time to about 30% if you're >using a DEC/de card. Of importance to this stat....what is the machine CPU and speed? A Pentium pro 200Mhz? Dennis
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