On 2007 May 15 (Tue) at 20:34:19 +0200 (+0200), Claudio Jeker wrote:
:On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:09:03AM -0700, Peter Hessler wrote:
:> you forgot to enable sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 on the first test.
:> Turn that on, then re-measure the speeds of the bridge.
:>
:
:bridging is layer 2 and has nothing to do with net.inet.ip.forwarding=1.
:The problem is more somewhere deep inside the bridging code. One possible
:problem could be a to small interface queue but I could be totaly wrong.
:If nobody beats me I will have a look at this somewhen in the next month
:or so.
I've had net.inet.ip.forwarding help on a bridge before. Not saying
there isn't a problem, but that I've gotten a performance increase from
enabling it.
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Why do you find that funny?
-- D. Taylor, Computer Science 350, University of Washington
