Re: Dragonfly Routers

2008-02-23 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Sat, February 23, 2008 1:31 am, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Thing is, there are people who report doing 10ge (almost) line rate 64 > byte pps on current PC hardware, with the "right" combination of PCIe, > decent chipsets and crazy tuned forwarding code complete with > prefetching. > > Its just not b

Re: Dragonfly Routers

2008-02-23 Thread Bill Hacker
Adrian Chadd wrote: On 20/02/2008, Bill Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Routing and firewalling is a specialty that has become a very high-volume hardware/ASIC/RTOS field where any router a PC could at one time match on speed has become so cheap and flexible off-the-shelf it is no longer

Re: Dragonfly Routers

2008-02-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 20/02/2008, Bill Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Routing and firewalling is a specialty that has become a very > high-volume hardware/ASIC/RTOS field where any router a PC could at one > time match on speed has become so cheap and flexible off-the-shelf it is > no longer worth the bothe

Re: Dragonfly Routers

2008-02-19 Thread Bill Hacker
Dave Hayes wrote: Bill Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave Hayes wrote: Has anyone here tried to use DragonFly BSD as a router where the box had more than 4 network interfaces? I'm wondering if too many network interfaces on one machine would have performance issues? What sort of hardware,

Re: Dragonfly Routers

2008-02-19 Thread Dave Hayes
Bill Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dave Hayes wrote: >> Has anyone here tried to use DragonFly BSD as a router where the box had >> more than 4 network interfaces? I'm wondering if too many network >> interfaces on one machine would have performance issues? > > What sort of hardware, As ye

Re: Dragonfly Routers

2008-02-17 Thread Bill Hacker
Dave Hayes wrote: Has anyone here tried to use DragonFly BSD as a router where the box had more than 4 network interfaces? I'm wondering if too many network interfaces on one machine would have performance issues? What sort of hardware, application, load? I've run six pci-bus 10/100 NICs as an

Dragonfly Routers

2008-02-17 Thread Dave Hayes
Has anyone here tried to use DragonFly BSD as a router where the box had more than 4 network interfaces? I'm wondering if too many network interfaces on one machine would have performance issues? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above ar