Hello I have couple of old ProLiants with bxp/em interfaces with 4.8 stable. If you provide me more info what to test extactly and what output to send, I'd gladly help.
BR Peter On 13 Mar 2011 03:56, "Ryan McBride" <mcbr...@openbsd.org> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 06:29:42PM -0800, Chris Cappuccio wrote: >> > 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) >> >> are you sure? that seems low, the 4501 used to do 4kpps with openbsd 3.3 ! > > Quite sure, though I certainly welcome someone else doing independent > testing to prove me wrong. (FWIW: I tested 3.3 last month and got a > maximum of 2400pps before packet loss exceeded 1%) > > The numbers above are for IP forwarding (not bridging), no PF, TCP syn > packets with random ports, ISN, and source address, but fixed > destination address. Measurements are on either side of the device > using SNMP on the switch, and they match very closely what I'm seeing > from the endpoints on either side of the firewall. The results are also > stable across the more than 30,000 individual tests I've run to date > against a variety of hardware and versions (automated, of course!) > > Note that If you measure on the box itself (i.e. the IPKTS/OPKTS) you > will get lies when the system is livelocking. If you push harder you can > get more packets through the soekris but it's meaningless as most of the > packets are being dropped and the box is completely livelocked.
