Re: Software router state of the art

Adrian Chadd wrote:

1 mil pps has been broken that way, but it uses lots of cores to get there. (8, I think?)

http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/net/2008-06/msg00364.html has all the details. It's rather long thread but 1mpps was achieved on a single cpu IIRC (the server had multiple cpus but only one being used for forwarding). Firewall rules slowed it down quite a bit but theres also some work out there being done to minimize this. Regards, Chris