> 
> Test 2------- Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers 2550
>       Bridge Machine Spec:
>               Processor       Intel PIII 1.26 GHz, 133 MHz bus speed
>               Cache size      512 KB
>               Memory          1 GB
>               Network Card    Intel Corp. 82543GC Gigabit Ethernet,
>                               Intel Corp. 82543GC Gigabit Ethernet
>                       *Note* It had 2 BroadComm gig cards. But
> unfortunately BroadComm cards don't work in promiscuous mode. So, we had
> to put these 2 Intel gig cards, which only have module. (so as broadcomm)
> 
>       I ran iperf. I got very bad results.
>       TCP: 113 Mbps (with window size 32KB), so i increased window sized
> by 64KB and i got 260 Mbps. But that's still low on Gig network.
>       UDP: It drops more than 1/3 of the packets. If i try to push 500
> Mb then i get around 150 Mb bandwidth and if i try to push 900 Mb then i
> get 140 Mb.
> 

Using Dell 1550's w/ 2 cpu's and G-NIC-II's running back to back we got 
850Mbps, after the bridge was inserted w/ filtering, performance dropped to 
650Mbps. CPU usage on the bridge box had hit ~65% on both CPU's. No tuning was 
done on the boxes for those tests.

-Mike



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