In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Greco) writes:
> No problems with high traffic rates. (For the purposes of this discussion,
> all traffic except ssh to the router is traffic /thru/ the router).
Yes sorry I should have also mentioned I was specifically using
64byte packets for PPS testing - not entirely real world traffic.
> I find this interesting, because the aggregate traffic through the router
> is clearly not anywhere near a gigabit. So it does appear that there is
> some sort of inadvertent cap on PPS here.
I think there always will be at some point, if only because the
hardware isn't not optimised for the task.
> 2) We need to remember that the design of the P4SC{8,i} is a bit crappy,
> in that the onboard ports consist of one CSA port (no problem here)
> and one PCI port - which Supermicro wisely placed on the 32-bit, 33 MHz
> legacy PCI bus. This could potentially limit the throughput on that
> port.
Not a problem for me as I'm only using the ethernet on that bus.
-Paul-
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