FreeBSD, quagga (BGP) and 2950 VLANs

[Sten Daniel Sørsdal]

> 
>>Doing a straight FTP transfer from one server to another 
>>through a CIsco 3640 seems to cap at about 40 Mbits/second so I was 
>>wondering how that compares to a x86 system running FreeBSD.
> 
> 
> The tests I made using some shuttle.com barebone hardware etc
> seems to max out around 500 mbit/sec. It wasn't a full-blown BGP setup,
> far from it. More seems easily be possible, but we still need
> to test.
> 

500mbit/sec throughput?
that would be 1 gbit/sec input + output?
can the PCI bus do any better than that?

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Sten Daniel Sørsdal