Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 14:51:00 -0400 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Christopher Sedore <cmsedore@mailbox.syr.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Router statistics Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970424145057.00b74d90@etinc.com>
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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. Dennis
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