From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Nov 5 20:07:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA13571 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 20:07:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA13562 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 20:07:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (wes@zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA09586; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 21:07:03 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <364275E7.5656F1FF@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 21:07:03 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: article@daemonnews.org CC: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD NewsFlash: High-speed router research Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Copyright © 1998 Wes Peters An article entitled "High-Speed Data Paths in Host-Based Routers" in the November 1998 issue of Computer, the journal of the IEEE Computer Society, details research into high-speed network routing. The researchers, Simon Walton, Anne Hutton, and Joe Touch, describe their research into speeding the deliver of packets from one network interface (NI) to another. Their research network included high- speed Myrinet NIs and switches from Myricom, and test workstations and a routing host comprised of 200 Mhz PentiumPro processors running FreeBSD 2.2.5. "We found that as a host-based router, the hosts provide bandwidths near 335 Mbps using existing production drivers and the FreeBSD software." Once again, the quality and reliability of the BSD networking stack has been recognized in a leading-edge research project. [Editorial note, not for publication in Daemon News: this is startingly close to the work I do at my "day job", where I am working on an enhancement using new hardware to do basically what is described in this paper. The difference is, we have a lot of dedicated hardware to help us with this, and we can switch almost any kind of physical layer traffic.] -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message