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Re: Software router state of the art

  • From: Chris Marlatt
  • Date: Wed Jul 23 12:26:20 2008
Adrian Chadd wrote: 

1 mil pps has been broken that way, but it uses lots of cores to get there.
(8, I think?)


http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/net/2008-06/msg00364.html has all the details. It's rather long thread but 1mpps was achieved on a single cpu IIRC (the server had multiple cpus but only one being used for forwarding). Firewall rules slowed it down quite a bit but theres also some work out there being done to minimize this.

Regards,

Chris