Re: Router performance on OpenBSD and OpenBGPD

2007-03-16 Thread Dan Farrell
, February 24, 2007 10:52 AM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Router performance on OpenBSD and OpenBGPD On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:03:30PM -0800, Karsten McMinn wrote: On 2/21/07, Alex Thurlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops, forgot that part. At 325Mbps, we do about 60,000pps, so that puts

Re: Router performance on OpenBSD and OpenBGPD

2007-02-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/02/25 20:05, Daniel Ouellet wrote: But I was wondering however if it wouldn't be possible to use the 72xx routers as dumb media converter? I don't think you can do this exactly, but you can run OSPF on them, let OpenBSD handle the main BGP sessions, and feed back a small BGP table to

Re: Router performance on OpenBSD and OpenBGPD

2007-02-25 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/02/21 18:38, Daniel Ouellet wrote: problem is really I can't replace Cisco DS3 and multi channel DS3 with OpenBSD yet for the lack of decent hardware for that! (; eotdm may be worth a look where you have both ends of the line. some vendors mentioned here:

Re: Router performance on OpenBSD and OpenBGPD

2007-02-24 Thread Martin Toft
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:03:30PM -0800, Karsten McMinn wrote: On 2/21/07, Alex Thurlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops, forgot that part. At 325Mbps, we do about 60,000pps, so that puts us at about 360,000pps needed for 2Gbps. You'll have a hard time finding benches for that. To date, the

Re: Router performance on OpenBSD and OpenBGPD

2007-02-22 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 2/21/07, Alex Thurlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops, forgot that part. At 325Mbps, we do about 60,000pps, so that puts us at about 360,000pps needed for 2Gbps. You'll have a hard time finding benches for that. To date, the best reported is 150k pps which was on the intel E7520 chipset.

Re: Router performance on OpenBSD and OpenBGPD

2007-02-22 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 08:52:37AM +0500, Shohrukh Shoyokubov wrote: I just wanted to ask this question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] My situation is 100Mbps/100Mbps that is needed to be managed. I need bandwidth management and I want to ask if someone has such experience. I plan to implement it on

Re: Router performance on OpenBSD and OpenBGPD

2007-02-22 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 05:17:22PM -0600, Alex Thurlow wrote: So anywhere I look for router performance on OpenBSD, all the benchmarks are on small lines or old machines. I also see mentions of people using it in large scale installations, which is what I'm looking to do. I thought I'd

Re: Router performance on OpenBSD and OpenBGPD

2007-02-21 Thread Henning Brauer
* Alex Thurlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-22 00:25]: I have 2 GigE lines from different providers balanced via BGP with full routes from both providers. Currently, these are running through a Linux/Quagga/Iptables router/firewall with a P4 3.2 GHz. The distro is Gentoo, and we've stripped

Re: Router performance on OpenBSD and OpenBGPD

2007-02-21 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Alex Thurlow wrote: We're pushing streaming video, so it's almost all outbound traffic by about a 30:1 factor, and our average packet size is quite large - around 1200 bytes. At the moment, when we hit about 350Mbps, the router gets to ~30% CPU usage, and it appears that we stop being able to

Re: Router performance on OpenBSD and OpenBGPD

2007-02-21 Thread Alex Thurlow
Oops, forgot that part. At 325Mbps, we do about 60,000pps, so that puts us at about 360,000pps needed for 2Gbps. Daniel Ouellet wrote: Alex Thurlow wrote: We're pushing streaming video, so it's almost all outbound traffic by about a 30:1 factor, and our average packet size is quite large -

Re: Router performance on OpenBSD and OpenBGPD

2007-02-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/02/21 18:38, Daniel Ouellet wrote: problem is really I can't replace Cisco DS3 and multi channel DS3 with OpenBSD yet for the lack of decent hardware for that! (; eotdm may be worth a look where you have both ends of the line. some vendors mentioned here:

Re: Router performance on OpenBSD and OpenBGPD

2007-02-21 Thread Liam J. Foy
On 21 Feb 2007, at 23:41, Henning Brauer wrote: * Alex Thurlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-22 00:25]: I have 2 GigE lines from different providers balanced via BGP with full routes from both providers. Currently, these are running through a Linux/Quagga/Iptables router/firewall with a P4 3.2

Re: Router performance on OpenBSD and OpenBGPD

2007-02-21 Thread Shohrukh Shoyokubov
I just wanted to ask this question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] My situation is 100Mbps/100Mbps that is needed to be managed. I need bandwidth management and I want to ask if someone has such experience. I plan to implement it on OpenBSD. Any recommendations? Shohrukh Alex Thurlow wrote: So anywhere