Re: 10GE router resource

[Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008, Chris Grundemann wrote:

> To Ann's question on resources; I have only used Linux routers with 1G
> ports but have surpassed 10G total throughput (up+ down) using various
> dual proc set ups, most often Intel Xeon in Dell servers.  A gentlemen
> by the name of Martin Pels wrote a good paper on the subject early
> last year that can be found here:
> http://docs.rodecker.nl/10-GE_Routing_on_Linux.pdf.  He hit a wall at
> 700K pps and was using two dual core Intel Xeon 64bit 2.33GHz CPUs and
> 2GB of RAM in a Dell PowerEdge 1950.

Mike Tancsa did some benchmarking in late 2006:

http://www.tancsa.com/blast.html

I think things are slightly faster now but not because of a massive
change in software architecture.




Adrian