em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

Vlad Galu dudu at dudu.ro
Thu Nov 23 17:43:51 UTC 2006


On 11/23/06, Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote:
> At 08:09 AM 11/22/2006, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
>
> >It would be interesting to know the real performance of Linux as a mere
> >router if we want a true comparision with FreeBSD performances.
>
> Re-tested, this time with a LINUX UP kernel and there is not that
> much difference in overall speeds. I added a few IPTABLES rules which
> loaded a few of the modules.
>

   Can you please completely remove the iptables support from your
Linux configuration, as well as removing support for any packet filter
in FreeBSD? Also, please enable fast_forwarding.

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