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Re: Software router state of the art
From: Chris Marlatt <cmarlatt () rxsec com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:25:52 -0400
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
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