[LARTC] Linux router performance

[Ronny Aasen]

On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 22:27 +0200, Andreas John wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Maybe:
> Khan, Sohel; Waheed, Abdul (2003): High Performance Routing on
> PCshttp://www.ccse.kfupm.edu.sa/~sohel/networking/references/Routing.pdf
> 
> A rule of thumb:
> - with current COTS hardware and (standard) PCI Bus, you can reach the
> maximum of the PCI bus bandwidth. That's 1 GB/s, e.h. two NICs with  500
> Meg/s each ( one in and one out )
> - with PCI-X and in the future PCI-express you'll for sure be able to
> reach more performance. I didnt find a sponsor for a test-lab yet :)
> - in DoS secnarios it may get worse :/ I heavily depends on driver type
> (polling and NAPI preferred). 

ofcouse prefered. 
Does it exsist a list of driver/nic combos that are know to support NAPI
on linux on stock kernels ?

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Ronny Aasen <list at datapart-as.no>