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RE: Zebra Router???
From: Mike Tancsa <mike () sentex net>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:17:02 -0400
At 03:56 PM 21/04/2003 -0400, Deepak Jain wrote:
If you go higher than 100Mb/s speeds, look for zero-copy boards, especially on the Gigabit side that FreeBSD supports. You have drastically low interrupt overhead and your speeds to move packets around increase. In my experience, its not the CPU that gets bogged down (first) but the interrupt load on a properly configured (software) box.
... The em driver now supports polling. The author of much of the polling code (luigi () iet unipi it) claimed to push 650Kpps on a 2.4Ghz PIV machine. YMMV based on the hardware you use, and the cards you combine.
---Mike
Current thread:
- Re: Zebra Router???, (continued)
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- RE: Zebra Router??? Joshua Kenan (Apr 20)
- Re: Zebra Router??? Ryan Mooney (Apr 21)
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- RE: Zebra Router??? Deepak Jain (Apr 21)
- RE: Zebra Router??? Mike Tancsa (Apr 21)
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