Date: Thu, 22 Jun 95 20:19:07 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Cc: jkh@freebsd.org, evanc@synapse.net, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router Message-ID: <9506230219.AA04529@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950622174040.4381C-100000@haven.uniserve.com> from "Tom Samplonius" at Jun 22, 95 05:42:08 pm
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> > That said, be aware that any kind of UN*X box doesn't exactly compete > > with a Cisco in terms of performance. They throw raw hardware at the > > problem whereas we have to do it the hard way, in software. > > The bottleneck certainly can't be in the CPU can it? Where is the > bottleneck with PCI and a good 486 motherboard? I suspect there are bottlenecks everywhere. You can probably start with linear traversal of the routing table and non-seperate reader/writer locks coupled with a lack of kernel preemption. A lot of things could be done to the code to speed it up -- have at it (with Garrett's approval on robustness, of course). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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