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Subject: Re: Tuning for router performance
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In article <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKEEKADDAB.davids@webmaster.com>,
	davids@webmaster.com ("David Schwartz") writes:

>> options         HZ=1000         #for polling
> That's too low. 2000 is the minimum you should consider.

This alone has helped..  now up to 200Kpps at least but my click
router has run out of puff since I haven't managed to get the
e1000 polling driver to load on it.

Anyone have any suggestions for other high performance packet
generator tools for this kind of testing?

-Paul-