freebsd router

[Alan Kemp]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, ann kok wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I think this group might be correct to ask the
> performance of freebsd as router
>
> I have run freebsd 4.11 as router for 3 years. I like
> freebsd because it is more stable and its security.
> Recently, the bandwidth grows to stop about 383M in
> mrtg graph and have packet loss when it reaches to
> 370M
>
> I am trying to use freebsd 6.0. Could you help how to
> tune the freebsd to have high network throughput? I
> test the throughput by ipref software. the max is
> about 390M
>
> I configure polling, loader.conf and use the  Intel(R)
> Pentium 3.0 Hz, intel Giga em0, sata drive with 2G
> memory

Hey,

Take a look at this site, it might help.
http://silverwraith.com/papers/freebsd-tuning.php

cheers

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Alan Kemp
Development / Network Systems
MCI