Re: FBSD 1GBit router?

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Andrew Snow <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I can confirm that FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 can route packets at 1gbps. I used a
late-model Supermicro Xeon server which has two gigabit NICs on a
PCI-express "4x" lane.

With the new em driver improvements in 7 it uses very little CPU time, I
would recommend using Pro/1000 on 7.0 with a decent server motherboard
if you want to achieve this speed.

- Andrew



I remember somebody mentioned that the packet switching/routing performance
of AMD Opteron machines was much bigger than Intel's, mostly due to
the integrated
memory controller.
Has anyone done any comparisons between the two architectures?

--Niki
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