Re: Packets Per Second Limit?

2007-05-31 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 5/31/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know the maximum packets per second that can traverse a 100MB internet link. From what I've been able to gather its about 8300 or so? Is this number accurate? Do connections just start to timeout once I hit this limit? I'm a little

Re: Packets Per Second Limit?

2007-05-31 Thread nachocheeze
Depends on the byte size of the packet. If most of your throughput is standard 1500 byte packets, you should have little to no problem. If someone starts blasting out 64 byte packets at wire speed though, your link will be toast long before traffic ever reaches 100Mbps. On 5/31/07, [EMAIL

Re: Packets Per Second Limit?

2007-05-31 Thread Darren Spruell
On 5/31/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know the maximum packets per second that can traverse a 100MB internet link. From what I've been able to gather its about 8300 or so? Is this number accurate? Do connections just start to timeout once I hit this limit? I'm a little

Re: Packets Per Second Limit?

2007-05-31 Thread Jeffrey C. Ollie
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 12:18 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know the maximum packets per second that can traverse a 100MB internet link. From what I've been able to gather its about 8300 or so? Is this number accurate? Do connections just start to timeout once I hit this limit? I'm a

Re: Packets Per Second Limit?

2007-05-31 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/05/31 12:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know the maximum packets per second that can traverse a 100MB internet link. From what I've been able to gather its about 8300 or so? 100Mb - somewhere between that and about 220,000. depends on packet size. you're probably more interested

Re: Packets Per Second Limit?

2007-05-31 Thread Ryan McBride
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 03:43:56PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Were nearing the 8300pps mark so I was worried? But should I be? You're fine. The 8300pps mark is not an upper limit, it's the best case for a full 100Mbit ethernet link (ignoring jumbograms). Becuase the majority of my

Re: Packets Per Second Limit?

2007-05-31 Thread askthelist
On 5/31/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Depends on the byte size of the packet. If most of your throughput is standard 1500 byte packets, you should have little to no problem. If someone starts blasting out 64 byte packets at wire speed though, your link will be toast long

Re: Packets Per Second Limit?

2007-05-31 Thread Stuart Henderson
[ qlength: 0/ 50 borrows: 0 suspends: 0 ] [ measured: 6448.5 packets/s, 31.21Mb/s ] Were nearing the 8300pps mark so I was worried? But should I be? Becuase the majority of my packets are smaller then 64B, shouldn't I be able to pass a lot more packets then 8300pps? If

Re: Packets Per Second Limit?

2007-05-31 Thread Darren Spruell
On 5/31/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] by the way. I know where google is. I've been there and have even read some of the links that are posted in this very thread. However I am confused and there even seems to be some confusion/discrepancies within this thread... so I

Re: Packets Per Second Limit?

2007-05-31 Thread askthelist
ok i feel better now and i think i got a better handle on this then before. its a fast box with plenty of memory, intel pro gig eth cards (em), about 350k in the state table at the moment, with fairly small ruleset, intelligenty would probably be up for debate! I would like to think so. Thanks.