Re: NIC / driver performance with libpcap

[Fabian Schneider <schneifa () net in tum de>]

Hi Andy,


> The two metrics I looking at now are:
>
> - What throughput can I get before seeing dropped packets
> - CPU usage
      
maybe you want to take a look at [1] where I have done exactly this for a
special systems with Intel cards. If you want to read more background on  
this have a look at [2] where the measurement setup is explained in more  
detail.
      
We are trying to gather all things that enable high performance capturing
on the following web page:

http://www.net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de/research/hppc/

Everybody is welcome to supply further and newer hint and tips on this 
topic. 


   best
   Fabian

[1] http://www.net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de/papers/SWF-PCCH10GEE-07.pdf
[2] http://www.net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de/papers/S-PEPCSHN-05.pdf

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