> >| On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 03:52:54PM +0100, Manuel Guesdon wrote: > >| > >| I think we already mentioned it that you will always see Ierr. The > >| > >| question is if the box is able to forward more then 150kpps. > >| > > >| > Yes that's one a the questions. We can divide it into 3 questions: > >| > 1) is the limitation comes from hardware ? > >| > 2) is the limitation comes from OpenBSD ? > >| > 3) is the limitation comes from the way OpenBSD exploit hardware. > >| > > >| > 1) Except if someone explain by a+b why the hardware can't forward this > >| > rate, I'm keep thinking it can do it (otherwise I don't see reason to > >sell > >| > quad 1Gbps nic). > >| > >| Are you suggesting that because you have a quad-port gig nic, your box > >| should be able to do 6 *million* packets per second? By that logic my > >| 5-port Soekris net4801 should be able to handle 740kpps. (for reference, > >| the net4801 does about 3kpps with 4.9) > > No, I don't suggest that, I simply think it strange to have these > kind of hardware specification (bus length and speed and bgps nic) > [...]
It is strange that the vendors of these hardware products lie with statistics. You are astoundingly naive. We simply don't need the grief of entertaining users like you.
