On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 02:31:23 -0500 Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fine, so you don't like Cisco. Substitute Raptor or Juniper or some > other product that can do basic Inter-VLAN routing at 100,000 packets/ > second in even their low end products, That doesn't change the > facts, just the brand name, the hue of the case, and maybe the > reseller's profit margin. > > Regardless of whether you use the walks-on-water SysKonnect cards or > "crappy" $470 Intel quad-EM cards, OpenBSD on i386 barely approaches > half that rate, when doing nothing more than routing packets from one > interface to another (but I'd be happy to be proven wrong on this).
PCs aren't as slow as you think they are. After taking the time to tune their network stack for performance, FreeBSD 5.3 can route 1Mpps on a high end PC. I have no idea how many pps openbsd can handle, but obviously you don't have to resort to cisco just to get 100,000 pps. Adam
