On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 01:08:50PM +1100, Damian McGuckin wrote: > Assuming traffic going between say 'vr0' and 'vr1', will it a Net5501 > board sustain 100Mbps?
I doubt it would. One limiting factor being the number of packets per second. At some point the packets-per-second rate will trigger livelock countermeasures which deliberately slow things down to prevent an interrupt storm from locking up the system. You could do some measurements with tcpbench(1) to find exact figures. Make sure to test several sizes of packets, since smaller packets trigger more interrupts per second.
