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Re: Software router state of the art

  • From: Adrian Chadd
  • Date: Sat Jul 26 07:05:47 2008

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008, Florian Weimer wrote:

> Was this with one packet flow, or with millions of them?

I believe it was >1 flow. The guy is using an Ixia; I don't know how
he has it configured.

> Traditionally, software routing performance on hosts systems has been
> optimized for few and rather long flows.

Yup.

And I always ask that question when people claim really high(!) throughput on
software forwarding. It turns out their throughput was single source/single
dest, and/or large packets (so high throughput, but low pps.)




Adrian