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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!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!shellx.best.com!not-for-mail From: rcarter@shellx.best.com (Russell Carter) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router Date: 1 May 1996 17:17:26 -0700 Organization: Best Internet Communications Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4m8uum$hcm@shellx.best.com> References: <4lfm8j$kn3@nuscc.nus.sg> <DqMLuC.2xo@ritz.mordor.com> <4m39q0$bqu@shellx.best.com> <4m8a1t$7rr@samba.rahul.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shellx.best.com In article <4m8a1t$7rr@samba.rahul.net>, Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> wrote: >In <4m39q0$bqu@shellx.best.com> rcarter@shellx.best.com (Russell Carter) writes: > >>TCP STREAM TEST to gelifast >... >>Size Size Size Time Throughput >>bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec > >> 32768 32768 8192 60.01 40.99 > >What happens to the throughput when you have a big routing table with, >say, 30,000 entries, and verious-sized prefixes using BGP4? In that >case each packet to be routed requires a search for the right routing >table entry. How much route caching does FreeBSD do? How efficiently >does it search for the longest matching BGP prefix when selecting a >route? Interesting questions. I'd like to know the answer too, but it doesn't look like I will have the opportunity anytime soon. Feel free to try it out! Russell >-- >Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> >"please ignore Dhesi" -- Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>