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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nntp.uio.no!nntp.uib.no!nntp-bergen.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!sthaug From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router Date: 30 Apr 1996 20:27:54 GMT Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway Lines: 47 Message-ID: <4m5t4b$hp5@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <4lfm8j$kn3@nuscc.nus.sg> <4m0mht$qcl@skipper.netrail.net> <4m1pjc$nle@itchy.serv.net> <DqMLuC.2xo@ritz.mordor.com> <4m39q0$bqu@shellx.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trane.uninett.no In-reply-to: rcarter@shellx.best.com's message of 29 Apr 1996 13:45:52 -0700 [Russell Carter] | Hmm... I know I tested routing a couple of months ago, aha! | Here is what I measured with the latest version of netperf, | systems use DC21140 NICs, (two in router), one pair direct | connected and one pair connected through a Trendnet hub. | Pipelined burst SRAM (essential!) P5-133/166/133 CPUs. All | with 32 MB. FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE. | | I haven't posted these before because I was a little | disappointed, but hell they are just a shade over 20 times | faster than ah has been claimed is the max for a PC Unix | router. ... | TCP STREAM TEST to gelifast | Recv Send Send | Socket Socket Message Elapsed | Size Size Size Time Throughput | bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec | | 32768 32768 1 60.01 0.32 | 32768 32768 4 60.01 1.25 | 32768 32768 16 60.00 4.20 | 32768 32768 64 60.00 10.76 | 32768 32768 256 60.00 21.77 | 32768 32768 1024 60.00 32.03 | 32768 32768 4096 60.00 38.32 | 32768 32768 16384 60.00 41.09 | 32768 32768 65536 60.01 39.78 | 57344 57344 4096 60.01 39.33 | 57344 57344 8192 60.00 40.11 | 57344 57344 32768 60.04 41.09 | 32768 32768 4096 60.01 39.56 | 32768 32768 8192 60.01 40.99 | 32768 32768 32768 60.01 40.49 | 8192 8192 4096 60.01 39.99 | 8192 8192 8192 60.01 40.98 | 8192 8192 32768 60.01 40.27 ... | Looks pretty good to me... BTW, unrouted TCP throughput peaks | at about 83 Mb/s over 100BASE-TX. This is very close to my own measurements too. I got a very consistent 75-80 Mb/s between two P133s equipped with 21140 cards, using either ttcp or netperf. Didn't measure routing though... Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no