Ingo Flaschberger wrote:
this plattform can handle about 100.000pps and 400mbit 1500byte packets with freebsd http://lannerinc.com/Network_Application_Platforms/x86_Network_Appliance/1U_...
hardware: 4x pci 32bit, 33mhz intel gbit 1gb cf-card 1gb ram
with this hardware even more pps should be possible: http://www.axiomtek.de/network_appliances/network_appliances/smb_network_sec...
hardware: 7x pcie (1lane each) connected network
A very quick test through a box much like the one in your latter link, running FBSD 7.1, Quagga, and many IPFW rules, to a machine that is not very busy: receiver% netstat -h -w 1 input (Total) output packets errs bytes packets errs bytes colls 1 0 60 1 0 170 0 1 0 60 1 0 170 0 1 0 60 1 0 170 0 1 0 60 1 0 170 0 47K 0 28M 1 0 170 0 132K 0 77M 1 0 170 0 133K 0 78M 1 0 170 0 133K 0 78M 1 0 170 0 131K 0 77M 1 0 170 0 132K 0 77M 1 0 170 0 132K 0 78M 1 0 170 0 133K 0 78M 1 0 170 0 Steve