On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:15:20PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Marco Fretz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-30 11:19]: > > anyone did some performance test on this linksys card? i want to buy it > > for vlan routing? i neet performance up to 500 MBit/s. can i use it for > > this? > > I doubt it is any good. sk(4) is best, em(4) acceptable. >
Currently bge(4) performs better than em(4). bge(4) forwarded at ~400kpps whereas em(4) maxed out at ~300kpps. I could not test a sk(4) as I only had a 32bit single port sk(4) around and that would have been unfair to compare it against the other dual PCI-X cards. The two other PCI-64 cards I could test a bit where nge(4) and vge(4) both maxed out somewhere between 100kpps and 200kpps. The numbers where generated with an Agilent N2X network tester. The system under test was an amd64 (2.6GHz, Tyan Thunder K8S board) running i386 -current. -- :wq Claudio
