click performance

[Robert Morris]

Amit,

Where did you see a report of Click forwarding 1.3 million packets
per second?

What are you using to generate the packets? What are you using
to measure the forwarding rate?

Can you send us the exact Click configuration you are using?

Thanks,
Robert

> From: "Amit Dror" <amit at checkpoint.com>
> To: <click at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu>
> Subject: click performance
> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 19:05:42 +0200
> Importance: Normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> we have set-up an environment with a click router and Intel EEPro 1000
> gigabit cards.
> 
> Running a test of 64 byte packet stream we have reached only 325,000 packets
> per second with the following hardware configuration:
> 
> IBM Netfinity 4500R
> Dual Intel PIII 1000Mhz (booted UP kernel) , 256MB RAM
> 2 x Intel PRO/1000 NICs
> 
> The click router is running a simple IP router configuration generated by
> make-ip-conf.pl
> 
> As this is quite far from the reported 1.3 million 64 byte packets per
> second result  we try to understand what causes the difference.
> 
> Is it possible to get the hardware configuration in which the 1.3 million 64
> byte packets per second was measured ?
> 
> Do you have any idea about what may cause this difference ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Amit Dror, Software Developer,
> Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. http://www.checkpoint.com
> Phone: +972-3-7534532, Fax: +972-3-7534893
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