Re: [LARTC] New hardware

2006-08-23 Thread Marek Kierdelewicz
Hi there, I used a SunFire x2100 which has 2 Ghz Opteron and PCI-Xpress slot into which I plugged in a dual port gigE Intel PCI-Xpress card. What was the software configuration of this host? What kernel have you used for the test (compiled for x86 or amd64; dual-core aware sheduler or not).

Re: [LARTC] New hardware

2006-08-23 Thread Mohan Sundaram
Marek Kierdelewicz wrote: Hi there, I used a SunFire x2100 which has 2 Ghz Opteron and PCI-Xpress slot into which I plugged in a dual port gigE Intel PCI-Xpress card. What was the software configuration of this host? What kernel have you used for the test (compiled for x86 or amd64;

Re: [LARTC] New hardware

2006-08-23 Thread Mohan Sundaram
Marek Kierdelewicz wrote: Hi there, I used a SunFire x2100 which has 2 Ghz Opteron and PCI-Xpress slot into which I plugged in a dual port gigE Intel PCI-Xpress card. What was the software configuration of this host? What kernel have you used for the test (compiled for x86 or amd64;

[LARTC] New hardware

2006-08-21 Thread Jurijs Petrovs
Hi! I want to upgrade hardware on my router (iptables, htb, 1000 users). Now it is based on usual desktop PC (Intel Prescott P4 3.00 Ghz, 1 Gb RAM). The reason of hardware upgrade is growing up number of users, also we are planning to increase upstream link from 100 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s. Iptables

Re: [LARTC] New hardware

2006-08-21 Thread Marek Kierdelewicz
Hi! Hi reason of hardware upgrade is growing up number of users, also we are planning to increase upstream link from 100 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s. If you want to move around 1Gbit/s you need PCI-X or PCI-E network interfaces (PCI bus would be a bottleneck). 1) Server based router (with dual

Re: [LARTC] New hardware

2006-08-21 Thread Mohan Sundaram
I used a SunFire x2100 which has 2 Ghz Opteron and PCI-Xpress slot into which I plugged in a dual port gigE Intel PCI-Xpress card. Got a raw forwarding performance of 800Kpps for 64B packets. This beat a CISCO 3845 which gave 600Kpps. Raw forwarding is one measure though it is not the