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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD router, as good as a harware router ? Date: 9 Jan 1996 05:13:12 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4csth8$j62@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4cof7j$59@news.mistral.co.uk> <4cpjil$k1l@agate.berkeley.edu> <4crlak$1h4@web.ddp.state.me.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <4crlak$1h4@web.ddp.state.me.us>, David Miller <isdmill@gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us> wrote: >Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote: >: router also. A box that does nothing else but route packets is going to >: blow the doors off an all-in-software solution that's capable of doing >: everything from routing packets to running vi. 200-300K/sec is what you'll >: typically get in lan-to-lan routing with a FreeBSD box, whereas 700-800K/sec >: is more likely with a nice Cisco router. > >Just one datapoint here. I setup a bsdi PC (90 MHz pentium, lots of ram, >3com and WD cards) and got well over 800K/sec with some FTP's. Erm. Are you sure that's 800K/sec *through* the BSD/OS machine, e.g. not to the BSD/OS router itself but to some host hanging off an interface other than the one the client host is hanging off of? I was talking about routing performance, not possible bandwidth. 800K/sec is not difficult to achieve if you're talking directly to the box, but I'd be impressed to see this in a configuration where you're talking in one ethernet card, route through the kernel and out another ethernet card. Especially if the routing machine is doing other things! Jordan