Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:46:47 +0100 From: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> To: danial_thom@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd router Message-ID: <20060111144647.10970c5f.lists@yazzy.org> In-Reply-To: <20060111131621.94640.qmail@web33309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060111031613.42819.qmail@web53312.mail.yahoo.com> <20060111131621.94640.qmail@web33309.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:16:21 -0800 (PST) Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > --- ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > I think this group might be correct to ask the > > performance of freebsd as router > > > > I have run freebsd 4.11 as router for 3 years. > > I like > > freebsd because it is more stable and its > > security. > > Recently, the bandwidth grows to stop about > > 383M in > > mrtg graph and have packet loss when it reaches > > to > > 370M > > > > I am trying to use freebsd 6.0. Could you help > > how to > > tune the freebsd to have high network > > throughput? I > > test the throughput by ipref software. the max > > is > > about 390M > > > > I configure polling, loader.conf and use the > > Intel(R) > > Pentium 3.0 Hz, intel Giga em0, sata drive with > > 2G > > memory > > > > Thank you for your help > > Stop wasting your time and stay with FreeBSD > 4.11. Its the fastest router platform Man has > ever created, and its likely to say that way. What makes you think it's faster than other/newer releases of FreeBSD or any other O.S? Sounds to me like you're trolling. > If you are using FreeBSD 4.11 for 3 years you will > be very unhappy > > Please don't use polling for a router. Good > grief! Intel cards have built-in interrupt > moderation. If you are pushing more than 100Kpps > then you should increase your receive rings to > 512. Otherwise just use the defaults in 4.11 for > your best efficiency of your system.
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