[isp-bgp] Re: BGP-linux

["Tom (UnitedLayer)" <tom@...]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 alex@... wrote:
> > 300 Mbps is nothing, 500Mbps is nothing. You can do 300Mbps+ with a
> > PII-450!
>
> More accurate description for performance is in pps, not mbps.  Try again.

Previous poster mentioned the 300Mbps number.
I agree that PPS is much more indicative of performance, but raw
throughput is handy for making these sorts of overgeneralized statements.

> > I did some work for a company that built FW/Router boxes loaded up with
> > 100Mbps ethernet interfaces (3x4 port cards). We pumped each interface
> > full of traffic with smartbits boxes, ended up with full speed on each
> > interface.
>
> 1500 bytes packets or 64 byte packets? One flow or random source/dest?

Not remembering the full details, but I believe the tests were done within
a variety of criteria. Its very possible full speed was accomplished with
close to full MTU packets only (but that wasn't my original point
anyways). Filling up that much BW with 64byte packets is a metric buttload
of PPS.