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Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 12:57:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Jim Dixon <jdd@vbc.net>
cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.psinet.net.au>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Throughput on kernel routing rules?
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On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Jim Dixon wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> 
> > Anyone ever done any tests to see how many packets per second FreeBSD
> > can route?
> 
> We have seen something like 10-15Kpps.  There is a group at MIT working 

  On what kind of CPU?  Since I guess such things are CPU bound...
 
> on a FreeBSD-based router, see
> 	http://ana-www.lcs.mit.edu/anaweb/pcrouter.html
> 
> As I recall they talk about forwarding 500Kpps through the kernel, 
> perhaps 50 - 100 Kpps through the interfaces.
> 
> They use a modified FreeBSD and two CPUs, one to do the forwarding
> and one to handle the gated calculations.  It's well worth looking
> at.
> 
> --
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> 
> 
> 

Tom