claudio's dmesg indicated something like a 2.6ghz athlon 64 or opteron click modular router claims 435kpps on a pentium 3 700mhz, and if their forwarding engine code was reusable then it should be noteworthy that their license is also appropriate. click was ported to freebsd at one point, but not maintained.
take the money you would save from buying a new juniper m series or cisco 6500/7600 and hire an openbsd developer to implement tricks for fast packet routing Dustin Lundquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We are looking to terminate a GigE circuit running about 700Mbps during > peak hours. We will be using three interfaces and running iBGP with a > half dozen or so peers and a eBGP session with our upstream with a full > table. Last month Claudio mentioned routing 450kpps, what sort of > performance can we expect in the above situation? Is this do able under > a 3.9 GENERIC i386 kernel? How much a performance hit should we expect > with a full table vs. decoupling the FIB and having a few static routes? > > > Dustin Lundquist > Optic Fusion -- "The map is not the territory; the word is not the thing defined."
