Re: Linux Routing Performance inferior?

[Norbert van Nobelen]

BSD is known for good network performance, however I don't know benchmarks. 
I think the difference is to big: The routing/IP stack combined being 10 times 
less efficient is too much.

They also don't mention which linux kernel they use. Reading the 
FreeBSD-5.3-Networking.pdf they did some optimasations which are probably not 
advisable if you don't use your box as a router.
The goal of this person is as far as I can see to build a router only, so in 
theory you could build in the same optimasations in network stack of linux

Also look at page 11: The fastforwarding is a solid positive step on how a 
router should work. So even the performance of FreeBSD is not considered like 
a real router OS.



On Wednesday 08 September 2004 19:36, you wrote:
> Quoted from a recent mail to freebsd mailing list.
>
> "FreeBSD (5.x) can route 1Mpps on a 2.8G Xeon while
> Linux can't do much more than 100kpps"
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2004-September/004840.html
>
> Is this indeed the case?
>
> Ram Chandar.
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