I'm going to go out on a limb and say I don't think you will see that throughput with a PIII of any speed. Several PIII's, maybe. Several UltraSparc's in a big Sun box, possibly. I haven't run these tests myself, but I've run several that could be considered "nic stressing" and I haven't seen a nic handle this kind of a load. "Roisman, Dani" wrote: > > Hello. > > We are planning a network that uses about 75Mbit/s inbound and about > 20Mbit/s outbound, at around 80Kpps inbound and 35Kpps outbound. So I need > to build a box with to fastE's that will do at least 100,000 packets per > second. I'm even willing to use GigE interfaces, if that would make my life > easier. FYI average packet size is 100Bytes, and is mostly UDP. > > I was wondering what pps count you folks have been seeing using linux > routers/firewalls (ipchains). I want your feedback if I'm living in > fantasy-land here, or if it's actually possible to get 100Kpps through a > PIII-450 running 2.2.14 with a 40-line ipchains ruleset. > > I read the ever-so-long thread that was sparked by the benchmarks of the > cisco router versus the linux routers, but that's not what I want to get > into here. I'm more interested in any real-world experience with this kind > of packet count. > > ---- > Dani Roisman > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC. The rules have changed... Get paid to surf the web!!! http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=bdc893
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