RE: [LARTC] Linux router performance

2006-06-16 Thread S Mohan
Damjan wrote: On an AMD Athlon64 3200+ (2 GHz) I was able to saturate 2 PCI-Express gigabit cards (but that was with 1500 byte packets). Never tried more although the box has 6 interfaces capable of gigabit, 4 of them attached via PCI-Express. But that's _only_ 8 packets/s isn't it.

Re: [LARTC] Linux router performance

2006-06-16 Thread Tomas Bonnedahl
Fermín Galán Márquez skrev: Hi, I wonder about the performance of a Linux box used as router (I guest I'm not the first :). Althought I know it mainly depends on the hardware, I'm trying to find some references on the topic or comparations with other routing solutions (FreeBSD box used as

Re: [LARTC] Linux router performance (fwd)

2006-06-16 Thread Jesper Dangaard Brouer
PROTECTED], lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl Subject: Re: [LARTC] Linux router performance Jesper Dangaard Brouer writes: Hi I'm sure that Robert can provide us with some interesting numbers. I have just tested routing performance on a AMD opteron 270 (dual core), here I can route 400 kpps (tg3

RE: [LARTC] Linux router performance

2006-06-01 Thread Andrew Lyon
xOn an AMD Athlon64 3200+ (2 GHz) I was able to saturate 2 PCI-Express gigabit cards (but that was with 1500 byte packets). Never tried more although the box has 6 interfaces capable of gigabit, 4 of them attached via PCI-Express. What NIC's are you using? Are they multiport or do you have

Re: [LARTC] Linux router performance

2006-06-01 Thread Ronny Aasen
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 22:27 +0200, Andreas John wrote: Hi, Maybe: Khan, Sohel; Waheed, Abdul (2003): High Performance Routing on PCshttp://www.ccse.kfupm.edu.sa/~sohel/networking/references/Routing.pdf A rule of thumb: - with current COTS hardware and (standard) PCI Bus, you can reach

Re: [LARTC] Linux router performance

2006-06-01 Thread Jesper Dangaard Brouer
Hi I'm sure that Robert can provide us with some interesting numbers. I have just tested routing performance on a AMD opteron 270 (dual core), here I can route 400 kpps (tg3 netcards on PCI-X). I use the kernel module pktgen to generate the packets (64 bytes in size). Cheers, Jesper

Re: [LARTC] Linux router performance

2006-05-31 Thread Andreas John
Hi, Maybe: Khan, Sohel; Waheed, Abdul (2003): High Performance Routing on PCshttp://www.ccse.kfupm.edu.sa/~sohel/networking/references/Routing.pdf A rule of thumb: - with current COTS hardware and (standard) PCI Bus, you can reach the maximum of the PCI bus bandwidth. That's 1 GB/s, e.h. two

Re: [LARTC] Linux router performance

2006-05-31 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Fermín Galán Márquez wrote: Hi, I wonder about the performance of a Linux box used as router (I guest I'm not the first :). Althought I know it mainly depends on the hardware, I'm trying to find some references on the topic or comparations with other routing solutions (FreeBSD box used as

Re: [LARTC] Linux router performance

2006-05-31 Thread Damjan
I wonder about the performance of a Linux box used as router (I guest I'm not the first :). Althought I know it mainly depends on the hardware, I'm trying to find some references on the topic or comparations with other routing solutions (FreeBSD box used as router, Cisco, etc). For

Re: [LARTC] Linux router performance

2006-05-31 Thread Alexander Samad
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:44:57AM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Damjan wrote: I wonder about the performance of a Linux box used as router (I guest I'm not the first :). Althought I know it mainly depends on the hardware, I'm trying to find some references on the topic or

Re: [LARTC] Linux router performance

2006-05-31 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Alexander Samad wrote: On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:44:57AM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Damjan wrote: I wonder about the performance of a Linux box used as router (I guest I'm not the first :). Althought I know it mainly depends on the hardware, I'm trying to find some references on

Re: [LARTC] Linux router performance

2006-05-31 Thread Alexander Samad
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 04:03:29AM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Alexander Samad wrote: On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:44:57AM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Damjan wrote: I wonder about the performance of a Linux box used as router (I guest I'm not the first :). Althought I

Re: [LARTC] Linux router performance

2006-05-31 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Alexander Samad wrote: On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 04:03:29AM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Alexander Samad wrote: On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:44:57AM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Damjan wrote: I wonder about the performance of a Linux box used as router (I guest I'm not the