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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Core router bakeoff?
Tony Li writes: > > BTW, NetBSD with the recent flow cache mods can handle at least > > 150,000 packets per second. We haven't seen what the actual upper > > limit is, but that number doesn't seem to be eating a lot of CPU. > > Interesting. Have you done any scalability testing? Per-flow state has > been shown to scale poorly in Internet backbones. I agree with you that it doesn't scale well to huge routers. I am certain that it would work very badly in MCI's backbone. It probably will work just fine in a small provider, though, and those are most of the guys who want to roll their own out of PCs anyway. If you want to pump half a gigabit through on a giant peering router, caches will lose, and the only thing that will do you right is real router hardware. Perry
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