freebsd router

[Danial Thom]

--- ann kok <annkok2001 at yahoo.com> 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
> 
> Thank you for your help

Stop wasting your time and stay with FreeBSD
4.11. Its the fastest router platform Man has
ever created, and its likely to say that way. If
you are using FreeBSD 4.11 for 3 years you will
be very unhappy

Please don't use polling for a router. Good
grief! Intel cards have built-in interrupt
moderation. If you are pushing more than 100Kpps
then you should increase your receive rings to
512. Otherwise just use the defaults in 4.11 for
your best efficiency of your system.

DT

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