routing for 1000 users and 10Mbit internet.

[Bill Moran]

hugle <hugle at vkt.lt> wrote:

> >> now the main problem is.. that machine is shaping internet, right?
> >> I did shaping for my subnet, so users in /24 have 100kbits everybody.
> >> But they don't get such speed, they get about 70-80kbps . and if I
> >> try to skipt pipe rules for certain IPs, users get all available
> >> speed (which is left), it's about 500kbps..
> >> so why machine can't pipe it normally ?
> >> Didn't had these problems in the past...
> 
> BM> Past when?  What changed?
> 
> BM> Typically, only ~80% of available bandwidth is usable.  I don't know if
> BM> that applies to your situation, though, as that's usually referring to
> BM> ethernet, and you claim the problem hasn't always been there.
> 
> BM> Try polling and see if the load reduces and the performance increases.
> BM> If all that machine is doing is routing, you can configure it to be
> BM> dedicated to routing.
> 
> Hello all:)
> I'm here again..
> so. I've purchased 3com nic, it recognises it as: bge0.
> Situation went a bit better.. (in first hours on last nics i had ~50%
> interrupt and here I had 30%) But after some time.. interrupts went up

I didn't expect it to change significantly.

> COmpiled in polling support
> But after enabling polling I don't see any changes..
> Maybe bge NIC'a don't support pooling ?

The man page for polling does not list the bge driver as supported, and the
bge man page says nothing about polling that I can find.

However, the fxp driver (for the Intel NIC) _does_ support polling.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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