Well, zebra will have very little to do with the routing performance on the box. In fact if you are just doing a simple packet forward with no routing protocols there is no reason to run a routing daemon of any sort. Your limitations are the box itself, and the FreeBSD kernel. For just forwarding packets from one side to the other it should perform quite nicely. Even then there are a number of factors that affect throughput, including packet size, number of clients, etc.... if you start adding packet filters and what not you may have to be a little more careful in how you add them so as not to affect performance overly. I don't see any reason that you shouldn't be able to basically saturate a 100Mb line with a box of this speed, although I have no publishable information to back me up.
Hi All, I'm trying to find out what peoples experiences regarding the throughput of Zebra on a FreeBSD Box.
My configuration is as follows:
Intel Pentium III 1.40G 1 Gig RAM 2x <Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet> (one internal, one external) on board.
This box is running as a simple static router, i.e. one subnet on the inside, Internet feed on the other side. No BGP, no RIP, no OSPF. Pretty simple, eh?
So the goal is to know the bandwidth limitation of this router. Any ideas? I've heard numbers of 35Meg, 40 Meg, etc, however, I have not recieved a good reason backing it up. Can anyone offer some input on this?
Regards, Tom Daly
-- Tom Daly tom@dyndns.org Chief Infrastructure Officer Dynamic DNS Network Services http://www.dyndns.org/
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