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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.se.dataphone.net!nntp.uio.no!newsfeeds.sol.net!feed1.news.erols.com!tipu2.cwix.net!skywalker.pipeline.ch!opi.pipeline.ch From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to test pure routing ability of routed ?? Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 16:14:16 +0200 Organization: Internet Business Solutions Ltd. (AG) Lines: 56 Message-ID: <3360BC38.6E16@pipeline.ch> References: <5jo658$sav$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> <33604E32.6F57@OntheNet.com.au> Reply-To: oppermann@pipeline.ch NNTP-Posting-Host: skywalker.pipeline.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39718 Do you really need routed? If you want do *real* routing use gated. Gated supports all usefull routing protocols like (RIP)/OSPF/BGP4. Tony Griffiths wrote: > = > chris andrichak wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > does there aexist any numbers/whatever on the pure routing capabiliti= es of FreeBSD routed on a Pentium class machine? THings like packets forw= arded, throughput, etc..?? > = > You are confused about what happens with TCP/IP packets and routing (IP= > forwarding is a better description of what is happening)!!! > = > Basically, other than RIP packets, routed does not see ANY IP packet in= > transit between two interfaces on a FreeBSD system. The ONLY thing tha= t > routed does (some would say badly) is maintain the state of the routing= > table. It is this table that the IP code uses to determine which > interface an IP packet should be sent to, assuming it is not for the > host itself. If the IP code cannot determine an interface either by an= > explicit match or via a default route, then is DOESN'T handoff the > packet to routed, it simply DROPS it!!! Actually, it might send an ICM= P > datagram back to the originating host saying that it has dropped the > packet just to be nice. > = > With regard to testing, get two VERY fast machines (ie. Alphas or > PPro200s) and connect them each to two Ethernet cards in the system > under test. Try flood pinging of ftp file transfer with small MTU to > force the packets/sec up to around the limit of the Ethernet. I suspec= t > that a Pentium-class machine can do LOTS AND LOTS. > = > Tony -- = Andre Oppermann CEO / Gesch=E4ftsf=FChrer Internet Business Solutions Ltd. (AG) Hardstrasse 235, 8005 Zurich, Switzerland Fon +41 1 277 75 75 / Fax +41 1 277 75 77 http://www.pipeline.ch ibs@pipeline.ch