26 Jul
2008
26 Jul
'08
7:05 a.m.
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008, Florian Weimer wrote:
Was this with one packet flow, or with millions of them?
I believe it was >1 flow. The guy is using an Ixia; I don't know how he has it configured.
Traditionally, software routing performance on hosts systems has been optimized for few and rather long flows.
Yup. And I always ask that question when people claim really high(!) throughput on software forwarding. It turns out their throughput was single source/single dest, and/or large packets (so high throughput, but low pps.) Adrian