Re: Core router bakeoff?

[Tony Li <tli () juniper net>]

perry () piermont com (Perry E. Metzger) writes:

> Yeah, but you'll have trouble getting decent T3 cards for it. Its true 
> that 100Mbps ethernet should be fine.

SDL makes decent (tho not perfect) T3 cards for PCs.

> BTW, NetBSD with the recent flow cache mods can handle at least
> 150,000 packets per second. We haven't seen what the actual upper
> limit is, but that number doesn't seem to be eating a lot of CPU.

Interesting.  Have you done any scalability testing?  Per-flow state has
been shown to scale poorly in Internet backbones.  


Tony