Good afternoon, Ram,
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Ram Chandar 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?
I'm sure others here have far better examples, but one post to the netfilter-devel list last December provided an example of a firewall that could process 580kpps with netfilter/conntrack turned off. Granted, the post noted that adding netfilter brought that down to 450kpps, and adding conntrack on top of that brought it down to 295kpps, but all three of those numbers are well over the claimed 100kpps.